United States Eleventh Circuit

A writ of mandamus setting aside the disqualification of petitioners' attorney in representing them in a putative class-action race discrimination suit, is denied where petitioners have failed to demonstrate a clear and undisputable right to relief.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/18/2003
• Published 06/18/2003

Judges

• ANDERSON, Circuit Judge:, Before TJOFLAT, ANDERSON and CUDAHY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Anne M. Brafford,Peter Buscemi, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, Lawrence S. Robbins, Robbins, Russell, Englert, Orseek & Untereiner, Michael S. Sundermeyer, Williams & Connolly, LLP, Washington, DC, for BellSouth Corp., Marc Gary, BellSouth Corp., Paul T. Stagliano, BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc., Legal Dept., Atlanta, GA, Kumiki S. Gibson, Williams & Connolly, LLP, Washington, DC, George A. Stohner, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, New York City, for Petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• Byron Renard Perkins, Roderick T. Cooks, Gordon, Silberman, Wiggins & Childs, P.C., Albert Loring Vreeland, II, Lehr, Middlebrooks, Price & Proctor, P.C., Birmingham, AL, Suzette Marie Malveaux, Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, P.L.L.C., Cyrus Mehri, Gouri N. Bhat, Steven A. Skalet, Mehri & Skalet, PLLC, Washington, DC, for Appellee.