Mary PATTERSON; Brian Battiste; Thomas Thibodeaux; Alex Hartley; Edna B. Taylor; Edward Carter; Helen Carter; Demeturie Simmons; Melvin Franklin; Ronald Singleton; Helen Ratcliff; Willie Brown; Charles K. Battiste; Leonard Acklin; Jawana Acklin; Debra Ellzey-Herron, Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
DEAN MORRIS, L.L.P., et al., Defendants,
Dean Morris, L.L.P.; Leader Mortgage Company, L.L.C.; Long Beach Mortgage Company; Mortgage Electronics Registration Systems, Inc.; Countrywide Home Loans, Inc.; John C. Morris, III; George B. Dean, Jr.; Candice A. Courteau; Charles H. Heck, Jr.; Washington Mutual Bank; Chase Home Finance, L.L.C. as Successor by Merger to Chase Manhattan Mortgage Corporation; National City Bank, as Successor by Merger to the Provident Bank; U.S. Bank, National Association, Defendants-Appellants.
Robert Bauer; Salome Lucineo Boyd; Jim T. Bright; Debra Bright; Lionell J. Coleman; Lynn L. Coleman; Keenan Duckworth; Karen Duckworth; Mercedes Dutton; Matthew David Dyer; Terry Hardy, Sr.; Terese La-Beaud; Alton Pierce; Willie Lee Rauls; Rosalyn Veleary-Dodge, Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
Dean Morris, L.L.P.; Banker's Trust of California; Chase Manhattan Mortgage Corporation; Washington Mutual; Mortgage Electronics Registration Systems, Inc.; Countrywide Home Loans, Inc.; Bank One Corporation; Sun Finance Company, L.L.C.; Ocwen Loan Servicing, L.L.C., Successor in Interest to Ocwen Federal Bank, F.S.B.; John C. Morris, III; George B. Dean, Jr.; Candice A. Courteau; Charles H. Heck, Jr.; Chase Home Finance, L.L.C., as Successor by Merger to Chase Manhattan Mortgage Corporation and Bank One Corporation; Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, Formerly Known as Bankers Trust Company, Defendants-Appellants.
Mary Patterson; Larry Patterson; Brian Battiste; Debra Ellzey-Herron; Thomas Thibodeaux; Alex Hartley; Edna B. Taylor; Edward Carter; Helen Carter; Demeturie Simmons; Melvin Franklin; Ronald Singleton; Helen Ratcliff; Willie Brown; Charles K. Battiste; Leonard Acklin; Jawana Acklin, Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
Dean Morris, L.L.P., et al., Defendants,
Dean Morris, L.L.P.; Leader Mortgage Company, L.L.C.; Long Beach Mortgage Company; Chase Home Finance, L.L.C., as Successor by Merger to Chase Manhattan Mortgage Corporation; Washington Mutual Bank; Mortgage Electronics Registration Systems, Inc.; Countrywide Home Loans, Inc.; John C. Morris, III; George B. Dean, Jr.; Candice Corteau; Charles H. Heck, Jr.; U.S. Bank, National Association; National City Bank, N.A., Successor by Merger to Provident Bank, Defendants-Appellants.
Mary Patterson; Larry Patterson; Brian Battiste; Debra Ellzey-Herron; Thomas Thibodeaux; Alex Hartley; Edna B. Taylor; Edward Carter; Helen Carter; Demeturie Simmons; Melvin Franklin; Ronald Singleton; Helen Ratcliff; Willie Brown; Charles Battiste; Leonard Acklin; Jawana Acklin, Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
Dean Morris, L.L.P., et al., Defendants,
Dean Morris, L.L.P.; Leader Mortgage Company, L.L.C.; Long Beach Mortgage Company; Chase Home Finance, L.L.C., as Successor by Merger to Chase Manhattan Mortgage Corporation; Washington Mutual Bank; U.S. Bank, National Association; Mortgage Electronics Registration System, Inc.; Countrywide Home Loans, Inc.; John Morris, III; George B. Dean, Jr.; Candice A. Courteau; Charles H. Heck, Jr.; National City Bank, N.A., Successor by Merger to Provident Bank, Defendants-Appellants.
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May 3, 2006.
May 3, 2006.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Gary J. Gambel, Murphy, Rogers & Sloss, Jennifer N. Willis, Cater & Willis, Kyle D. Schonekas, Schonekas, Winsberg, Evans & McGoey, Michael E. Enow, David William Bernberg, New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.
Gustave A. Fritchie, III, Edward W. Trapolin, Irwin, Fritchie, Urquhart & Moore, Sidney A. Cotlar, James Cleverly Klick, Stephen Jay Herman, Herman, Herman, Katz & Cotlar, New Orleans, LA, for Defendants-Appellants.
Glenn Paul Orgeron, Kean, Miller, Hawthorne, D'Armond, McCowan & Jarman, Lisa Ann Easterling, Lemle & Kelleher, New Orleans, LA, John H. Beisner, O'Melveny & Myers, Washington, DC, Elizabeth Lemond, O'Melveny & Myers, Newport Beach, CA, for Ocwen Loan Servicing LLC.
Walter Whitaker Rayner, Watkins, Ludlam, Winter & Stennis, Jackson, MS, Michael H. Rubin, McGlinchey Stafford, Baton Rouge, LA, Jeffrey A. Schwartz, Watkins, Ludlam, Winter & Stennis, New Orleans, LA, for Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.
John M. Landis, Nicholas John Wehlen, Stone, Pigman, Walther & Wittman, New Orleans, LA, Bret A. Puls, Christine L. Nessa, Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly, Minneapolis, MN, for U.S. Bank Nat. Ass'n and Leader Mortg. Co. LLC.
Leann Pedersen Pope, Danielle Jean Skukala, Burke, Warren, Mackay & Serritella, Chicago, IL, James A. Brown, Shannon S. Holtzman, Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, LA, for Chase Home Finance, LLC.
Charles F. Gay, Jr., Adams & Reese, New Orleans, LA, Robert Bruce Allensworth, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, Boston, MA, for National City Bank.
Before SMITH, GARZA and PRADO, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:
Defendants appeal an order remanding these class actions to state court for want of jurisdiction under the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 ("CAFA"), Pub.L. No. 109-2, 119 Stat. 4 (2005), and on the ground of equitable remand in bankruptcy. Finding the remand order proper in all respects, we affirm it in regard to CAFA, and we dismiss, for want of jurisdiction, the remand order in the Bauer matter and the equitable remand order...
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