UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA ALEXANDRIA DIVISION FRED ALEXANDER, ET AL CIVIL DOCKET NO. 1:21-CV-00161 VERSUS JUDGE DAVID C. JOSEPH DRESSER, LLC, ET AL MAGISTRATE JUDGE JOSEPH H.L. PEREZ-MONTES ORDER Before the Court is Plaintiffs’ MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION OF THE COURT’S INTERLOCUTORY ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION TO REMAND AND DISMISSING DEFENDANT LDEQ (the “Motion”). [Doc. 97]. The Motion is unopposed. Given the Fifth Circuit’s intervening holding in D & J Inus. of Cenla, L.L.C. v. Baker Hughes a GE Co., L.L.C.,

(5th Cir. 2022). The Court herein: (i) VACATES the Report and Recommendation [Doc. 59] and Judgment [Doc. 66] dismissing the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) as a defendant in this matter; and Gi) ©REMANDS this case to the 9th Judicial District Court, Rapides Parish, Louisiana, because complete diversity no longer exists, and this Court therefore lacks subject matter jurisdiction under

(a). THUS, DONE AND SIGNED in Chambers on this 21*' day of December 2022.

( Lcd C DAVID C. JOSEPH UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE