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BROWN v. HAMMONDS

No. 84-1368 Summary Calendar.

747 F.2d 320 (1984)

Clifford Chester BROWN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Ellen F. HAMMONDS, a/k/a Elizabeth F. Brown and Ellen Hammonds Brown, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

November 30, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vladimir Verhovskoy, San Diego, Cal., for plaintiff-appellant.

Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, Laura Lynn Rodenburg, Dallas, Tex., for defendant-appellee.

Before RUBIN, RANDALL, and TATE, Circuit Judges.

TATE, Circuit Judge:

The district court granted the defendant wife's motion to dismiss the plaintiff husband's suit for want of jurisdiction over the subject matter. The trial judge did so under the judicially-created exception from federal jurisdiction of domestic relations cases. Jagiella v. Jagiella, 647 F.2d 561, 564-65 (5th Cir.1981); 13 Wright, Miller, and Cooper, Federal Practice and Procedure, § 3609 (1984). We...

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