Opinion ID: 613226
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Heading: Local Controversy and Home State Exceptions to CAFA

Text: Indeed, the law is not complete without its exceptions. CAFA requires federal courts to decline jurisdiction over a proposed class action if either of the following narrow exceptions is proven by a preponderance of the evidence: (1) the local controversy exception, 28 U.S.C. § 1332(d)(4)(A); or (2) the home state exception, 28 U.S.C. § 1332(d)(4)(B). The CAFA mandatory abstention provisions are designed to draw a delicate balance between making a federal forum available to genuinely national litigation and allowing the state courts to retain cases when the controversy is strongly linked to that state. Hart v. FedEx Ground Package Sys., Inc., 457 F.3d 675, 682 (7th Cir.2006).