ALVAREZ v. MIDLAND CREDIT MANAGEMENT, INC.

No. 09-10851 Summary Calendar.

585 F.3d 890 (2009)

Leticia ALVAREZ; David Anguiano; Robert Bardwell; William Bouldin; Bruce Conway; et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. MIDLAND CREDIT MANAGEMENT, INC.; Jay A. Taylor, P.C.; Henry McDonald and James, P.C.; Hosto and Buchan, P.L.L.C.; Mann Bracken, L.L.C., Successor by Merger to Wolpoff and Abramson L.L.P.; RLI Insurance Company; Western Surety Company; Melvin Thathiah; Travelers Casualty & Surety Company of America; Jay A. Taylor; Universal Surety of America, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

October 19, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Ernest Baruch, The Law Office of Chad Baruch, Rowlett, TX, Mark Frenkel, Frenkel & Frenkel, L.L.P., Thomas Dean Malone, Michael Thomas O'Connor, Law Offices of Dean Malone, Dallas, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Gregg D. Stevens, McGlinchey Stafford, P.L.L.C., Dallas, TX, for Midland Credit Management, Inc., Jay A. Taylor, P.C., RLI Ins. Co. and Taylor.

Ed Walton, Barron, Newburger & Sinsley, P.L.L.C., Terrell, TX, for Midland Credit Management, Inc., Mann Bracken, L.L.C., RLI Ins. Co. and Travelers Cas. & Sur. Co. of America.

Thomas A. Culpepper, Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons, L.L.P., Dallas, TX, for Henry McDonald and James, P.C., Hosto and Buchan, P.L.L.C., Western Sur. Co. and Thathiah.

Manuel Harry Newburger, Barron, Newburger, Sinsley & Wier, Austin, TX, for Mann Bracken, L.L.C., and Travelers Cas. & Sur. Co. of America.

Jay A. Taylor, Jay A. Taylor, P.C., Houston, TX, for Universal Sur. of America.

Before KING, STEWART and HAYNES, Circuit Judges.


HAYNES, Circuit Judge:

This case involves an interlocutory appeal1 of a denial of a motion to remand in a case removed pursuant to the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 ("CAFA"), Pub.L. No. 109-2, 119 Stat. 4 (codified in scattered sections of 28 U.S.C.), citing 28 U.S.C. § 1453(b). For the reasons set forth herein, we VACATE our September 1 order granting permission to appeal and remand to the district court.2<...

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