PERSHING, L.L.C. v. KIEBACH

No. 15-30396.

819 F.3d 179 (2016)

PERSHING, L.L.C., Plaintiff-Appellee v. Thomas KIEBACH; Marcel Dumestre; Margaret Dumestre; Mamie Helen Baumann, Through power of attorney Mamie C. Sanchez; Joseph Becker; et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

April 6, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas Miles Farrell , Attorney (argued), McGuireWoods, L.L.P., Houston, TX, Jeffrey J. Chapman , McGuireWoods, L.L.P., New York, NY, Lana Davis Crump , Kean Miller , L.L.P., Baton Rouge, LA, William Grayson Lambert, Esq. , McGuireWoods , L.L.P., Charlotte, NC, Amanda Howard Lowe , Kean Miller , L.L.P., New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Phillip W. Preis, Esq. (argued), Charles Malcolm Gordon, Jr., Esq. , Preis Gordon , A.P.L.C., Baton Rouge, LA, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before JOLLY and JONES, Circuit Judges, and MILLS, District Judge.


This is an interlocutory appeal of the district court's order denying Appellants' Fed. R. Civ. Pro. 12(b)(1) motion to dismiss, for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, Appellee's motion to confirm an arbitration award. Adopting the better reasoned approach to the amount in controversy under these circumstances, we...

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