United States Eleventh Circuit

Decision to remand case to Alabama state court is reversed where plaintiffs failed to prove that their case belongs in state court under the local controversy exception to the Class Action Fairness Act, and federal court has jurisdiction.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/22/2006
• Published 05/22/2006

Judges

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

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• James Van Carson, Wendlene M. Lavey, Lianne Mantione, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, LLP, Cleveland, OH, Stephen B. Devereaux, Philip E. Holladay, King & Spalding, Douglas A. Henderson, Lynette Eaddy Smith, Troutman Sanders, Atlanta, GA, John Winston Scott, James C. Huckaby, Jr., Huckaby, Scott & Dukes, P.C., Birmingham, AL, Jack D. Shumate, Karen Mysliwiec Pilar, Butzel Long, PC, Bloomfield, MI, for Defendants-Appellants., Edward McF. Johnson, Dennis G. Pantazis, Craig L. Lowell, Brian M. Clark, Wiggins, Childs, Quinn & Pantazis, LLC, Birmingham, AL, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.