United States Eleventh Circuit

In case involving question of fraudulent joinder of a resident defendant in the context of removal jurisdiction, denial of plaintiffs' motions to remand, dismissal of non-diverse defendant, and judgment for defendant is vacated as the district court erred in holding that non-diverse defendant was fraudulently joined, and the court lacked subject matter jurisdiction since complete diversity did not exist.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/18/2007
• Published 04/18/2007

Judges

• COX, Circuit Judge:, Before DUBINA and COX, Circuit Judges, and SCHLESINGER, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Elizabeth Koebel Russo, Russo App. Firm, P.A., South Miami, FL, John R. Overchuck, Paul G. Byron, Overchuck, De Marco, Byron & Overchuck, P.A., Winter Park, FL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Jonathan L. Gaines, Russo App. Firm, P.A., South Miami, FL, for Burns.


• For Appellees:
  
• David A. Shontz, Michael L. Gore, Alfred J. Bennington, Jr., Shutts & Bowen, LLP, Orlando, FL, Sylvia H. Walbolt, Carlton Fields, P.A., Tampa, FL, for Defendants-Appellees.