221702P.pdf   06/03/2022  Abraham Lizama  v.  Victoria's Secret Stores, LLC
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  22-1702
   United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Shepherd and Grasz, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Class Action Fairness Act. The district court did not err in 
   remanding this putative class action to state court as defendant failed to 
   establish that the amount in controversy exceeded $5 million as required 
   by the Act; while it is possible for injunctive relief to contribute to 
   the amount in controversy where the injunction would cause the defendant 
   to suffer financial loss, here the requested injunction regarding 
   defendant's collection of sales tax would simply prevent defendant from 
   collecting unnecessary tax that the company remits to the State of 
   Missouri; as a result, the injunction, if ordered would impose no cost on 
   defendant and the value of any taxes it would be prevented from collecting 
   could not be included in the calculation of the amount in controversy; nor 
   did defendant present any data or other evidence to support a reasonable 
   inference that the number of class members who would become repeat 
   purchasers was likely to be sufficient to generate the amount in disputed 
   taxes to bring the amount in controversy over $5 million.