Jose C. Dehoyos; Eva Perez-Dehoyos; Georgia Harrison; Charles White; Sheryl H. Franks; Martel Shaw, Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
Allstate Corporation; Allstate Insurance Company; Allstate Texas Lloyd's; Allstate Indemnity Company, Defendants-Appellants.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
September 3, 2003.
September 3, 2003.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Sanford Svetcov (argued), Milberg, Weiss, Bershad, Hynes & Lerach, San Francisco, CA, Joe R. Whatley, Jr., Whatley Drake, Birmingham, AL, Robert Q. Keith, Keith & Weber, Johnson City, TX, John J. Stoia, Jr., Andrew Winfield Hutton, Milberg, Weiss, Bershad, Hynes & Lerach, San Diego, CA, Christa L. Collins, Kendra C. Mancusi, James, Hoyer, Newcomer, Forizs & Smiljanich, Tampa, FL, Andrew S. Friedman, Bonnett, Fairbourn, Friedman & Balint, Phoenix, AZ, Herman Watson, Jr., Watson Jimmerson Givhan Martin & McKinney, Huntsville, AL, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.
Alan Edward Untereiner, Robbins, Russell, Englert, Orsek & Untereiner, Washington, DC, for Chamber of Commerce of U.S., Amicus Curiae.
Nancy L. Perkins, Arnold & Porter, Washington, DC, for Alliance of American Insurers, American Ins. Ass'n, National Ass'n of Independent Insurers, National Ass'n of Mut. Ins. Co. and Reinsurance Ass'n of America, Amici Curiae.
Tony P. Rosenstein, Maryanne Lyons, Karla A. Evans, Baker Botts, Houston, TX, Jeffrey Lennard (argued), Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellants.
Cleo Fields, The Fields Law Firm, Baton Rouge, LA, for National Rainbow/Push Coalition, Amicus Curiae.
Luis Roberto Vera, Jr., The Law Offices of Luis Roberto Vera, Jr., San Antonio, TX, for League of United Latin American Citizens, Amicus Curiae.
Before DAVIS, JONES and BENAVIDES, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
BENAVIDES, Circuit Judge:
This interlocutory appeal presents a preemption question. Six members of a proposed class of non-Caucasian insurance customers instigated this Civil Rights action against Appellants Allstate Insurance Corp. et alia (Appellants or Allstate), alleging that Allstate engages in racially discriminatory business practices in violation of 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981 and 1982 of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, and in violation of the Fair Housing...
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