United States Fifth Circuit

In a class action arising over injuries from faulty plumbing systems, dismissal for lack of subject matter jurisdiction with regard to plaintiff's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 due process claim, and dismissal for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted with regard to RICO claims, are both affirmed.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/19/2003
• Published 12/19/2003

Judges

• CLEMENT, Circuit Judge:, Before WIENER, CLEMENT, and PRADO, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mitchell A. Toups, Weller, Green, Toups & Terrell, Beaumont, TX, Arthur R. Miller (argued), Harvard University School of Law, Cambridge, MA, Damon Michael Young, Sr., Young, Pickett & Lee, Texarkana, TX, George Robert Blakey (argued), Notre Dame Law School, Notre Dame, IN, for Plaintiff-Appellant., Paul M. O'Connor (argued), Seth Alan Moskowitz, Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman, New York City, Jerry Lamar Mitchell, James W. Bartlett, Jr., Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman, Houston, TX, for Hoechst Celanese Chemical Group and Hoechst Celanese Corp., David T. Harvin (argued), Erica Lee Krennerich, Vinson & Elkins, Houston, TX, for Shell Oil Co., Kathleen Taylor Sooy (argued), Luther Zeigler, Crowell & Moring, Washington, DC, Jim C. Ezer, Schirrmeister Ajamie, Houston, TX, for E. I. DuPont De Nemours & Co.