United States Fifth Circuit

In a Class Action Fairness Act appeal under 28 U.S.C. section 1453, the sixty-day period, or any extended period, in which the court of appeals must render judgment runs from the date of entry by the court of appeals of an order granting permission to appeal.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/22/2006
• Published 03/23/2006

Judges

• JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:, Before SMITH, GARZA and PRADO, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Glenn Paul Orgeron, Kean, Miller, Hawthorne, D'Armond, McCowan & Jarman, Lisa Ann Easterling, Lemle & Kelleher, New Orleans, LA, John H. Beisner, O'Melveny & Myers, Washington, DC, Elizabeth Lemond, O'Melveny & Myers, Newport Beach, CA, for Ocwen Loan Servicing LLC., Walter Whitaker Rayner, Watkins, Ludlam, Winter & Stennis, Jackson, MS, Michael H. Rubin, McGlinchey Stafford, Baton Rouge, LA, Jeffrey A. Schwartz, Watkins, Ludlam, Winter & Stennis, New Orleans, LA, for Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., John M. Landis, Nicholas John Wehlen, Stone, Pigman, Walther & Wittman, New Orleans, LA, Bret A. Puls, Christine L. Nessa, Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly, Minneapolis, MN, for U.S. Bank Nat. Ass'n and Leader Mortg. Co. LLC., Leann Pedersen Pope, Danielle Jean Skukala, Burke, Warren, Mackay & Serritella, Chicago, IL, James A. Brown, Shannon S. Holtzman, Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, LA, for Chase Home Finance, LLC., Charles F. Gay, Jr., Adams & Reese, New Orleans, LA, Robert Bruce Allensworth, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, Boston, MA, for National City Bank.


• For Appellees:
  
• Gary J. Gambel, Murphy, Rogers & Sloss, Jennifer N. Willis, Cater & Willis, Kyle D. Schonekas, Schonekas, Winsberg, Evans & McGoey, Michael E. Enow, David William Bernberg, New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiffs-Appellees., Gustave A. Fritchie, III, Edward W. Trapolin, Irwin, Fritchie, Urquhart & Moore, Sidney A. Cotlar, James Cleverly Klick, Stephen Jay Herman, Herman, Herman, Katz & Cotlar, New Orleans, LA, for Defendants-Appellants.