United States Fifth Circuit

Orders remanding class actions to state court for want of jurisdiction under the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) and on the ground of equitable remand in bankruptcy is affirmed as to the remand order under CAFA where, for purposes of their suit's commencement date, plaintiffs had timely paid their filing fees. Appeals of other remand orders are dismissed for lack of jurisdiction.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/03/2006
• Published 05/03/2006

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.