United States Eleventh Circuit

Federal courts lack subject matter jurisdiction over state law case where there is an insufficient amount in controversy for diversity jurisdiction, and no federal law question in the complaint for federal question jurisdiction.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/04/2001
• Published 01/05/2001

Judges

• CARNES, Circuit Judge:, Before CARNES and BARKETT, Circuit Judges, and POLLAK, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Michael Straus,Straus & Boies, LLP, Thomas L. Krebs, Peyton D. Bibb, Jr., J. Michael Rediker, Ritchie & Rediker, LLC, Russell Jackson Drake, Joe R. Whatley, Jr., Whatley Drake, L.L.C., Peter H. Burke, Cooper, Mitch, Crawford, Kuykendall & Whatley, Birmingham, AL, Stephen P. Gregory, Tuscaloosa, AL, for Plaintiffs-counterdefendants-Appellants, Cross-Appellees., Peter Kontio, Michael P. Kenny, Alston & Bird, Atlanta, GA, Lee Edmundson Bains, Jr., Carl Stanley Burkhalter, Maynard, Cooper & Gale, P.C., Birmingham, AL, for Defendants-counterclaimants-Appellees, Cross-Appellants.