( June 30, 2026, 9:36 AM EDT) -- CHICAGO — The Class Action Fairness Act’s (CAFA) mass action local event or occurrence exception is jurisdictional and applies in a lawsuit over a weeklong industrial facility fire in Richmond, Ind., as “the fire is ‘an event or occurrence’ from which all claims in the action arose,” a Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled, addressing a question it said was one of first impression and finding that the trial court did not err by raising the question of the mass action exception sua sponte....