ARBUCKLE MOUNTAIN RANCH v. CHESAPEAKE ENERGY

No. 15-10955.

810 F.3d 335 (2016)

ARBUCKLE MOUNTAIN RANCH OF TEXAS, INCORPORATED, Plaintiff-Appellee v. CHESAPEAKE ENERGY CORPORATION; Chesapeake Operating, Incorporated, also known as Chesapeake Operating, L.L.C.; Chesapeake Operating, L.L.C., formerly known as Chesapeake Operating, Incorporated; Chesapeake Exploration, L.L.C., as successor by merger to Chesapeake Exploration, L.P.; Chesapeake Energy Marketing, Incorporated; Total E & P USA, Incorporated, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 7, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Parker Young, Esq. , Vincent Paul Circelli (argued), Kelli Walter, Circelli Walter & Young, P.L.L.C., Walker C. Friedman , Elizabeth Sturdivant Kerr , Friedman, Suder & Cooke, P.C., Daniel Wesley McDonald , McDonald Law Firm, Fort Worth, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Jane Webre (argued), John Kenneth Hicks , Christopher Donald Sileo , Scott, Douglass & McConnico, L.L.P., Austin, TX, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before CLEMENT, ELROD, and SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judges.


The Class Action Fairness Act ("CAFA") confers expansive federal jurisdiction over class actions, with few and narrow exceptions. Here, after the case was removed by the defendants under CAFA, Plaintiff Arbuckle moved to remand the case to state court under the "local controversy exception." The district court...

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