United States Eleventh Circuit

While sections 85 and 86 of the National Bank Act may provide a defense to state-law usury claims, these provisions do not accomplish complete preemption of plaintiff's complaints that defendants charged excessive interest in violation of Alabama Code section 8-8-1 and the common-law usury doctrine so as to permit removal; reversed and remanded to the district court.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/03/2002
• Published 04/03/2002

Judges

• WILSON, Circuit Judge:, Before TJOFLAT, BARKETT and WILSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• K. Stephen Jackson, Jeff S. Daniel, Jackson, Fraley & Shuttlesworth, P.C., Birmingham, AL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Peter Sean Fruin, Maynard, Cooper & Gale, P.C., Montgomery, AL, Stewart M. Cox, Bradley, Arant, Rose & White, A. Inge Selden, III, Stephen Clark Jackson, Maynard, Cooper & Gale, P.C., Birmingham, AL, Burt M. Rublin, Ballard, Spahr, Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP, Philadelphia, PA, for Defendants-Appellees.