United States Eleventh Circuit

In case alleging state law tort claims and involving the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005, grant of motion to remand to state court is affirmed as defendants are unable to meet their burden of establishing the requirements for federal jurisdiction over a mass action, since they are unable to establish that the plaintiffs' claims are potentially valued at more than $5,000,000.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/11/2007
• Published 04/11/2007

Judges

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

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Ed R. Haden, Michael D. Freeman, Spencer M. Taylor, Teresa G. Minor, Balch & Bingham, LLP, Alfred F. Smith, Jr., Sela Stroud Blanton, Bainbridge, Mims, Rogers & Smith, LLP, Joel M. Kuehnert, Bradley, Arant, Rose & White, LLP, Jackson R. Sharman, William Earl Bonner, W. Larkin Kadney, IV, Lightfoot, Franklin & White, L.L.C., James C. Huckaby, Jr., John Winston Scott, Huckaby, Scott & Dukes, P.C., Birmingham, AL, Scott Burnett Smith, Bradley, Arant, Rose & White, Huntsville, AL, for Defendants-Appellants., Lloyd W. Gathings, II, Honora McKeown Gathings, Richard Warren Kinney, III, Gathings Law, Birmingham, AL, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.