ADMIRAL INS. CO. v. ABSHIRE

No. 09-30121.

574 F.3d 267 (2009)

ADMIRAL INSURANCE CO., Plaintiff-Appellant Cross-Appellee, v. Donald W. ABSHIRE; Betty Joan Nix Buzzanca; Jesse Charles Adams; Gesele Diamond Adams; Darrow A. Adams, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees Cross-Appellants, v. State of Louisiana, Through the Office of Financial Institutions; State of Louisiana, Through the Office of Risk Management, Defendants-Appellants Cross-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 2, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph Leroy Spilman, III, David Charles Bach, Hailey, McNamara, Hall, Larmann & Papale, Metairie, LA, for Admiral Ins. Co.

David Coleman Raphael, Jr. (argued), David P. Smith, Elisa E. Tubbs, Smith Foote Law Firm, Alexandria, LA, Charles Ferrier Zimmer, John Alden Meade, Law offices of Odom & Des Roches, LLP, New Orleans, LA, for Abshire, Jesse Adams, Gesele Adams, Darrow Adams, Buzzanca.

David M. Latham (argued), Keary L. Everitt, Marie G. Everitt, Everitt, Pratt, Latham & Donovan, New Orleans, LA, for State of Louisiana, ex rel. Office of Financial Institutions.

John B. Dunlap, III (argued), Martin Stewart Bohman, Victor Roy Loraso, III, Carleton, Dunlap, Olinde, Moore & Bohman, LLC, Baton Rouge, LA, for State of louisiana, ex rel. Office of Risk Management.

Before WIENER, STEWART, and CLEMENT, Circuit Judges.


WIENER, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff-Appellant Admiral Insurance Company ("Admiral") and Defendant-Appellant State of Louisiana, through the Office of Financial Institutions and through the Office of Risk Management (collectively, "Louisiana") appeal from the order of the district court remanding this case to state court. Louisiana claims that the Plaintiffs-Appellees (collectively, "Abshire et al.") commenced this putative class...

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