United States Fifth Circuit
GRAY v. BEVERLY ENTER., 03-60528, 03-60712, 03-60768
In a suit against a nursing home for negligence, denial of plaintiff's motion to remand to state court is reversed where the joinder of in-state defendants was proper and the lack of complete diversity divested the district court of subject matter jurisdiction.
Appellate Information
- Decided 11/09/2004
- Published 11/10/2004
Judges
- JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:, Before SMITH and GARZA, Circuit Judges, and VANCE, District Judge.
Court
- United States Fifth Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Robert Roy Burford, Caren Schmulen Sweetland (argued), Jeremy Leon Doyle, Gibbs & Bruns, Houston, TX, James B. McHugh, Christine Connely Althoff, Wilkes & McHugh, Hattiesburg, MS, for Gray., John L. Maxey, II, Maxey, Wann, Fyke & Hawkins, Jackson, MS, for Mississippi Health Care Ass'n.
- For Appellees:
- Paul Villere Lagarde (argued), Andrew Christopher Clausen (argued), Alford, Clausen & McDonald, Mobile, AL, Senith C. Tipton, Michael Earl Phillips, Stephanie Gee Beaver, Faye Murphree James, Wilkins, Stephens & Tipton, Jackson, MS, John S. Baker, Louisiana State University, Paul M. HebertLaw Center, Baton Rouge, LA, for Defendants-Appellees.