EX PARTE FIDELITY BANK

1030483.

893 So.2d 1116 (2004)

Ex parte FIDELITY BANK f/k/a Fidelity National Bank. (In re Allen Austin et al. v. Dill, Dill, Carr, Stonbraker, and Hutchings, P.C., et al.).

Supreme Court of Alabama.

June 4, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Glenn E. Ireland and Joseph H. Driver of Carr, Allison, Pugh, Howard, Oliver & Sisson, P.C., Birmingham, for petitioner.

E. Britton Monroe of Lloyd, Gray & Whitehead, P.C., Birmingham; Andrew P. Campbell and Caroline Smith Gidiere of Campbell, Waller & Poer, LLC, Birmingham; and Frank Corley Ellis, Jr., of Wallace, Ellis, Fowler & Head, Columbiana, for respondents.


LYONS, Justice.

Fidelity Bank f/k/a Fidelity National Bank ("Fidelity") petitions this Court for a writ a mandamus directing the trial court to dismiss it as a defendant in an action brought by Allen Austin and other plaintiffs from Alabama and various other states (hereinafter collectively referred to as "Austin") on the basis of lack of personal jurisdiction.1 We deny the petition.

On September 12, 2001, Austin sued several defendants...

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