UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA, Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
THE AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY, et al., Defendants-Appellees.
United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
February 22, 1999.
February 22, 1999.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Christopher E. Peters, Mobile, AL, Russell Jackson Drake, Frederick T. Kuykendall, Joe R. Whatley, Jr., Charlene P. Cullen, Cooper, Mitch, Crawford, Kuykendall & Whatley, Birmingham, AL, Don Siegelman, Cherry, Givens, Peters & Lockett, Robert Weinberg, Atty. Gen., Montgomery, AL, for University of South Alabama.
Scott E. Delacroix, James G. Perdiago, Adams & Reece, New Orleans, LA, for Philip Morris.
William H. Brooks, Samuel H. Franklin, Lightfoot, Franklin & White, LLC, Birmingham, AL, Edward S. Sledge, III, Archibald T. Reeves, IV, McDowell, Knight, Roedder & Sledge, LLC, Mobile, AL, for Reynolds Tobacco Co.
H. Thomas Wells, Jr., Kevin W. Patton, Maynard, Cooper & Gale, Vernon Wells, Walston, Wells, Anderson, Birmingham, AL, for American Brands, etc.
Robert Bailey Reneau, Reneau & Thornton, Wetumpka, AL, for Council for Tobacco Research.
Robert A. Huffaker, Rushton, Stakely, et al., Montgomery, AL, William J. Baxley, Baxley, Dillard, Dauphin & McKnight, Birmingham, AL, for Tobacco Inst.
William C. Knight, Jr., Burr & Forman, L.L.P., Birmingham, AL, for Lorillard/Loews.
Robin G. Laurie, Balch & Bingham, Montgomery, AL, John C., Morrow, Burr & Forman, LLP, Vernon L. Wells, II, Helen Currie Foster, Walston, Wells, Anderson & Bains, LLP, Birmingham, AL, for Hill & Knowlton.
Robert Winberg, Asst. Atty. Gen., Montgomery, AL, for Movant-Appellee.
Before HATCHETT, Chief Judge, MARCUS, Circuit Judge, and KRAVITCH, Senior Circuit Judge.
United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.
MARCUS, Circuit Judge:
The central issue raised on appeal is a question of sequence or ordering: whether the district court should have first addressed Appellant University of South Alabama's ("University") Motion to Remand this diversity case to state court because it lacked subject matter jurisdiction before it turned its attention to the Attorney General of Alabama's Notice of Dismissal under Fed. R.Civ.P. 41(a)(1). Because...
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