United States Fourth Circuit

28 USC 1367 authorizes federal courts to exercise supplemental jurisdiction in a diversity class action when one named plaintiff has a claim above the jurisdictional minimum.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/02/2001
• Decided 08/23/2001
• Published 08/23/2001

Judges

• Before WILKINSON, Chief Judge, MOTZ, Circuit Judge, and HALL, Senior Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Robert Norris Hill, Speights & Runyan, Hampton, SC, for Appellant.  David Klingsberg, Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler, L.L.P., New York, NY, for Appellee. ON BRIEF:  Daniel A. Speights, Amanda G. Steinmeyer, Speights & Runyan, Hampton, SC;  Howard Hammer, Hammer, Hammer, Carrigg & Potterfield, Columbia, SC, for Appellant.  Robert Grass, Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler, L.L.P., New York, NY;  Michael T. Cole, Jane Thompson Davis, Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough, L.L.P., Charleston, SC, for Appellee.