ALLRED v. MOORE & PETERSON

No. 96-60083.

117 F.3d 278 (1997)

Michael S. ALLRED, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. MOORE & PETERSON, A Professional Corporation; Gaynell C. Methvin; Mark David; Paul R. Aiello; Camille F. Gravel, Jr., Individual Member of Gravel Brady & Berrigan, a Partnership, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 21, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth A. Rutherford, Richard Lee Jones, Alston, Rutherford & Van Slyke, Jackson, MS, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Harry Alston Johnson, III, Michael David Ferachi, Phelps Dunbar, Baton Route, LA, for Camille F. Gravel, Jr.

Daniel P. Callahan, Dallas, TX, for Moore & Peterson, A Professional Corportion, Gaynell C. Methvin, Mark David, Paul A. Aiello.

Before GARWOOD, DAVIS and STEWART, Circuit Judges.


GARWOOD, Circuit Judge:

The issue presented on this appeal is whether the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi had personal jurisdiction over five of the defendants in this diversity abuse of process/malicious prosecution case. The district court dismissed the case on the grounds that it lacked personal jurisdiction over all the defendants, Moore & Peterson, P.C., a Dallas, Texas law firm, and Paul R. Aiello, Mark David, and Gaynell...

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