192072P.pdf   07/08/2021  John Kitchin  v.  Bridgeton Landfill
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  19-2072
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Benton and Stras, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Class Action Fairness Act. Plaintiffs alleged their property 
   near Lambert International Airport had been contaminated by radioactive 
   waste left over from the Manhattan Project;defendants removed the action 
   to federal court, alleging federal-question jurisdiction existed under the 
   Price-Anderson Act and CERCLA and that diversity jurisdiction existed 
   under the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA); the district court concluded 
   that federal-question jurisdiction did not exist and that the 
   "local-controversy" exception to CAFA applied and granted plaintiffs' 
   motion to remand to state court; the court has jurisdiction over the 
   appeal of the remand order under 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1291; the district court 
   erred in remanding the case under the local controversy exception because 
   plaintiff failed to show that the conduct of defendant Rock Road 
   Industries - the only Missouri-citizen defendant and thus the only 
   possible local defendant for purposes of the exception - formed a 
   significant basis for the claims asserted in the complaint; the order 
   remanding the case to state court is reversed, and the matter is remanded 
   for further proceedings. Judge Stras, concurring in the judgment.