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, 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 LaBeaud; Alton Pierce; Willie Lee Rauls; Rosalyn Veleary-Dodge, Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
Dean Morris L.L.P., et al., Defendants,
Dean MORRIS, L.L.P.; Washington Mutual Bank; Mortgage Electronics Registration Systems, Inc.; Countrywide Home Loans, Inc.; Bank One Corporation; 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; Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, 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; Mortgage Electronics Registration Systems, Inc.; John C. Morris, III; George B. Dean, Jr.; Candice A. Corteau; Charles H. Heck, Jr.; U.S. Bank National Association; 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; U.S. Bank, National Association; Mortgage Electronics Registration System, Inc.; Countrywide Home Loans, Inc.; John C. Morris, III; George B. Dean, Jr.; Candice A. Courteau; Charles H. Heck, Jr.; National City Bank, As Successor by Merger to the Provident Bank, Defendants-Appellants.
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March 22, 2006.
March 22, 2006.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Jennifer N. Willis, Cater & Willis, Gary J. Gambel, Murphy, Rogers & Sloss, Kyle D. Schonekas, Schonekas, Winsberg, Evans & McGoey, Michael E. Snow, David William Bernberg, New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.
Sidney A. Cotlar, Herman, Herman, Katz & Cotlar, Gustave A. Fritchie, III, Irwin, Fritchie, Urquhart & Moore, New Orleans, LA, for Defendants-Appellants.
John H. Beisner, O'Melveny & Myers, Washington, DC, Glenn Paul Orgeron, Kean, Miller, Hawthorne, D'Armond, McGowan & Jarman, New Orleans, LA, Elizabeth Lemond, O'Melveny & Myers, Newport Beach, CA, for Ocwen Loan Servicing LLC.
Walter Whitaker Rayner, Watkins, Ludlam, Winter & Stennis, Jackson, MS, Jeffrey A. Schwartz, Watkins, Ludlam, Winter & Stennis, New Orleans, LA, for Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.
Russell W. Rudolph, Seale & Ross, Hammond, LA, Thomas M. Heffreon, Goodwin Procter, Washington, DC, for Long Beach Mortgage Co. and Washington Mut. Bank.
Gerard E. Wimberly, Jr., McGlinchey Stafford, New Orleans, LA, for Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. and Deutsche Bank Trust Co.
James A., Brown, Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, LA, for Chase Home Finance, LLC and Bank One Corp.
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:
This appeal come to us under the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 ("CAFA"), Pub.L. 109-2, 119 Stat. 4 (2005). We have motions to decide before briefing is completed on the merits. Because of CAFA's limitations on the period of time in which we must rule on the merits of the appeal, we need to determine whether that period begins with the filing of the petition for leave to appeal or, instead, with our order granting leave to appeal...
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