Kitchin v. Bridgeton Landfill, LLC

Issue: Whether the Class Action Fairness Act"s "local controversy" exception under which a federal district court must decline jurisdiction over a class action can be satisfied when the local and non-local defendants engaged in the same alleged conduct (as the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 6th, 9th, and 10th Circuits hold), or whether the alleged conduct of the local defendant must be different from that of the non-local defendants (as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th and 8th Circuits hold).