CSX and Conrail Argue with 1st Responders to Vinyl Chloride Release over Federal Court Jurisdiction

CAMDEN, N.J. -- Parties to a personal injury lawsuit brought primarily on behalf of first responders to a November 2012 train derailment have finished briefing plaintiffs’ motion to remand the action to state court based on a disputed lack of complete diversity.

Defendants CSX Transportation, Consolidated Rail Corp. (Conrail) and Norfolk Southern Corp. submitted an amended surreply Dec. 3 to the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, which has had the case since defendants removed it on Sept. 19.

The action was originally filed in state court in Pennsylvania, but was withdrawn and re-filed in New …