United States Fifth Circuit

In a legal malpractice suit against a law firm involving statements made in a legal opinion regarding a transaction with later-bankrupt Enron Corporation, a remand order to state court is affirmed where the district court properly determined that defendant-law firm's "apportionment complaint" failed, thus destroying the basis for federal jurisdiction.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/17/2006
• Published 04/17/2006

Judges

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

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Daniel Joshua Klau, Richard H. Goldstein, Thomas J. Rechen (argued), Pepe & Hazard, Theodore Metcalf Doolittle, Hartford, CT, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Roy L. Reardon (argued), David Earl Massengill, Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, New York City, for Defendant-Appellant.