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MELDER v. ALLSTATE CORP.

No. 04-30085.

404 F.3d 328 (2005)

Marylyn MELDER; Anginette Williams, wife of/and; Robert Williams; Trina Merridy; Iris Williams, wife of/and; Eric Williams; Leslie Faye Sanders; Willie J. Neapollioun, Jr.; Diana Barnes, wife of/and; Eugene Barnes; Kimberly Sanders, wife of/and; Dale J. Sanders; Nicole Lewis, wife of/and; Kendall Lewis; Gloria Jackson, wife of/and; Vincent Jackson; Laverne McGill; Tamica Cryer, wife of/and; Lionel Cryer; Lillie Bunch, individually and on behalf of all those individuals similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. ALLSTATE CORP.; Allstate Insurance Co.; Allstate Indemnity Co.; Allstate Life Insurance Co.; State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.; State of Louisiana, through the Louisiana Insurance Rating Commission, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

March 16, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tom W. Thornhill (argued), Thornhill Law Firm, Slidell, LA, Kenneth M. Carter, Carter & Cates, New Orleans, LA, Michael C. Palmintier, deGravelles, Palmintier, Holthaus & Fruge, Cleo Fields, The Fields Law Firm, Baton Rouge, LA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Judy Y. Barrasso (argued), Celeste Ruth Coco-Ewing, Barrasso, Usdin, Kupperman, Freeman & Sarver, New Orleans, LA, for Allstate Corp., Allstate Ins. Co., Allstate Indem. Co. and Allstate Life Ins. Co.

Wayne J. Lee (argued), Rachel Wendt Wisdom, Samantha Paula Griffin, Stone, Pigman, Walther & Wittmann, New Orleans, LA, for State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co.

Faye Dysart Morrison, Simoneaux, Carleton, Dunlap & Olinde, Baton Rouge, LA, for State of LA.

Before BARKSDALE, GARZA and DeMOSS, Circuit Judges.

RHESA HAWKINS BARKSDALE, Circuit Judge:

For this 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b) interlocutory appeal from a remand-denial, where diversity-jurisdiction removal was premised on claimed fraudulent joinder, at issue is whether there is any reasonable basis for predicting the non-diverse defendant could be liable under Louisiana law and, therefore, not fraudulently joined. (Our court now refers to "fraudulent joinder" as "improper joinder". See Smallwood v. Illinois Central...

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