United States Fifth Circuit

Because neither CERCLA nor the existence of a federal consent decree created federal "arising under" jurisdiction, and removal was not authorized under the All Writs Act, a claim for land contamination from toxic chemicals should have been remanded to state court.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/20/2002
• Published 06/20/2002

Judges

• GARWOOD, Circuit Judge:, Before GARWOOD, DAVIS and MAGILL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Charles Sterling Lambert, Jr. (argued), Jules Burton LeBlanc, Jr., LeBlanc, Maples & Waddell, Baton Rouge, LA, Patrick W. Pendley (argued), Pendley Law Firm, Plaquemine, LA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants., William R. D'Armond, Bradley Charles Myers, Sandra Louise Edwards, Kean, Miller, Hawthorne, D'Armond, McCowan & Jarman, Baton Rouge, LA, for Exxon Corp., Exxon Chemical Corp., USS Chemical Co., Copolymer Rubber & Chemical Corp. and Uniroyal Corp., John R. Tharp, David Mark Bienvenu, Jr., Taylor, Porter, Brooks & Phillips, Baton Rouge, LA, for Dow Chemical Co., Ethyl Corp. and Shell Chemical Co., John A. Gray, The Dow Chemical Co., Plaquemine, LA, for Dow Chemical Co., Stephen W. Glusman, Glusman, Broyles & Glusman, Baton Rouge, LA, for American Hoechst Corp., James Berry St. John, Jr., Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, LA, for Allied Chemical Corp., Gerald L. Walter, Jr. (argued), Anne Jordan Crochet, Taylor, Porter, Brooks & Phillips, Baton Rouge, LA, for Robert Bolger, J.W. Street, W.L. Rainey and NPC Services Inc.