United States Eleventh Circuit

A district court violates sovereign immunity principles by awarding prejudgment interest against a so-called "Write-Your-Own" company empowered to issue flood insurance by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/29/2001
• Published 03/29/2001

Judges

• COX, Circuit Judge:, Before ANDERSON, Chief Judge, and HULL and COX, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jeffrica Jenkins Lee, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, for United States, Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Richard W. Vollmer, III,Roger Crane Guilian, Killion & Vollmer, P.C., Mobile, AL, for Defendant-Appellant., Bruce J. McKee, Hare, Wynn, Newell & Newton, Birmingham, AL, Harold Wasden, Pierce, Ledyard, Latta & Wasden, P.C., Richard Bounds, Cunningham, Bounds, Yance, Crowder & Brown, Mobile, AL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.