GOINS v. GOINS

No. 84-4801.

777 F.2d 1059 (1985)

Eleanor Cook GOINS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Richard Allen GOINS, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

December 10, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nancy J. Beck, Jackson, Miss., for plaintiff-appellant.

William F. Wall, Fairfax, Va., for Crawford & Crawford.

Gerald Hosemann, Vicksburg, Miss., for Goins.

Tim Hancock, Jackson, Miss., for Harold Cain, Barbara Cain, Susie Can & Nocal Frisbie.

Jessie Armstrong pro se.

Before CHARLES CLARK, Chief Judge, HOMER THORNBERRY, and EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

CLARK, Chief Judge:

Eleanor Goins sued her former husband and seventeen of his relatives and associates in federal district court for conspiring to and wrongfully taking and withholding their child from her lawful custody. She sought damages and modification of a state court custody order. The district judge determined that this case fell within the domestic relations exception to federal diversity jurisdiction and dismissed it for lack of subject...

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