On January 5, 2011, Federal District Court Judge Janet Bond Arterton of the District of Connecticut granted the State of Connecticut’s motion to remand its case back to state court. Defendants (Moody’s, McGraw Hill Co., and Standard & Poor’s) argued that the State was suing to benefit specific citizens, thus creating federal diversity jurisdiction. Judge Arterton concluded that the case, brought under the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act, related to the State’s articulated interest in protecting all of its citizens from unfair practices, unique from the interests of individual investors, and therefore the State is a citizen of no state for diversity jurisdiction purposes. The court also found that the Class Action Fairness Act did not apply. Decision.