ST. PAUL MERCURY INS. CO. v. WILLIAMSON

Nos. 01-30648, 01-30879, 02-30215 and 02-30298.

332 F.3d 304 (2003)

ST. PAUL MERCURY INSURANCE COMPANY; et al., Plaintiffs, Haynes Best Western of Alexandria; H. L. Haynes; American General Insurance Co.; Maryland Casualty Co.; HL&H Holding Co., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Sonya WILLIAMSON, Individually and on behalf of her minor children; Robert T. Williamson, Individually and on behalf of his minor children, Defendants-Appellants, Abner Williamson, Appellant. St. Paul Mercury Insurance Company; et al., Plaintiffs, Haynes Best Western of Alexandria Inc.; H. L. Haynes, Mr.; H. L. Haynes, Mrs.; American General Insurance Co.; Maryland Casualty Co.; HL&H Holding Co., Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross-Appellees, v. Sonya Williamson, Etc.; et al., Defendants, Sonya Williamson, Individually and on behalf of her minor children; Robert T. Williamson, Individually and on behalf of his minor children, Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants, and Abner Williamson; Dixie Williamson, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 27, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Gerald Gaudet (argued), Jeremy Ashley Hebert, Voorhies & Labbe, Lafayette, LA, Robert Emmett Kerrigan, Jr. (argued), Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Terrance Gilroy Reed (argued), Alexandria, LA, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before JONES, WIENER, and DeMOSS, Circuit Judges.


WIENER, Circuit Judge:

The case before us must be the nadir in a seemingly unending series of lawsuits and counter-lawsuits in federal and state courts over the past thirteen years. In this latest iteration, Sonya and Robert Williamson ("the Williamsons"), appeal from a district court's order preliminarily enjoining them from prosecuting one of the many actions they have filed in Louisiana state court against St. Paul Mercury Insurance Co. ("St. Paul"), Haynes Best...

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