HOUSEHOLD BANK v. JFS GROUP

No. 02-11990.

320 F.3d 1249 (2003)

HOUSEHOLD BANK, f.s.b., Plaintiff-Appellant, H & R Block, Inc., H & R Block Eastern Tax Services, Inc., H & R Block Tax Services, Inc., Block Financial Corporation, Intervenors-Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The JFS GROUP, Mary G. Blackmon, Carl T. Brown, William E. Burch, Vincent R. Butler, Margaret A. Callaway, Dorothy Carruthers, Angela G. Christian, Curtis Crews, Letitia A. Crews, Janice Cunningham, Susie Davis, Willie Davis, Billy Devose, Patricia Dixon, Grace Downie, Sandra E. Dumas, Jessie Erkins, Larry Forte, Vivian A. Fortson, Michael A. Fountain, Tangela D. Glenn, Jean Imgram Gordy, Jeanette Harris, Otis G. Hayward, Eyvonne Hill, Jeffery Jackson, Willie J. Jett, Charlene D. Jonson, Gloria A. Johnson, Tonya A. Jones, Michael D. Kelly, Dorothy Kinsey, Latanya S. McCoy, Donald McCray, Johnnie R. McCray, Tonia McGhee, Lisa McQueen, Mary A. Morris, Denise Paige, Yvonne Paige, Aaron C. Patterson, Modester Peterson, Belinda Ann Rogers, Brenda Ruffin, Onnie Simmons, Emogene L. Smith, Cresha D. Thomas, Evelyn P. Thomas, Theresa L. Turner, Eugene Williams, and Winnifer Williams, The Middle District Group, Marie Anderson, Alvester Brafort, Patricia A. Coleman, Caldonia Jackson, Shirley Jernigan, Mamie D. Mitchell, Diane Peterson, Ernestine D. Starks, Gerald Stokes, Albert Thomas, and Earlene Young, The JTMH Group, The Adams Group, The Abraham Group, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

As Corrected April 7, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Burt M. Rublin, Philadelphia, PA, A. Inge Selden, III, Stephen Clark Jackson, Julie L. Wilson, Maynard, Cooper & Gale, P.C., Andrew J. Noble, III, Bradley, Arant, Rose & White, Birmingham, AL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Jeff S. Daniel, Jackson, Fraley & Shuttlesworth, Birmingham, AL, William Lloyd Copeland, Mobile, AL, Martha Dubina Roby, Robert D. Segall, Copeland, Franco, Screws & Gill, C. Knox McLaney, III, McLaney & Associates, PC, Montgomery, AL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before CARNES, HULL and ALARCÓN, Circuit Judges.


ALARCÓN, Circuit Judge:

We must decide whether the district court erred in dismissing this declaratory judgment action for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction, notwithstanding the existence of an actual controversy between the parties regarding non-frivolous federal claims that could be brought by the defendants in a coercive action. The district court held that it lacked subject-matter jurisdiction because the plaintiffs failed to demonstrate that the anticipated...

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