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MISSISSIPPI VALLEY TITLE INS. CO. v. THOMPSON

No. 12-16188.

754 F.3d 1330 (2014)

MISSISSIPPI VALLEY TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Old Republic National Title Insurance Company, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. J. Garrison THOMPSON, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

June 19, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles C. Simpson, III , Lawrence Jean Seiter , Johnstone Adams Bailey Gordon & Harris, LLC, Mobile, AL, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

James Brian Rossler , Rossler Law Firm, LLC, Mobile, AL, Larry William Harper , Porterfield Harper Mills Motlow & Ireland PA., Birmingham, AL, Philip Henry Pitts , Law Offices of Pitts, Pitts & Williams, Selma, AL, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge, and MOORE and SCHLESINGER, District Judges.

SCHLESINGER, District Judge:

This appeal presents a relatively simple question, but one that the Alabama Supreme Court is best-equipped to answer: Does an "attorney agent" who works under contract for a title insurance company provide a "legal service" within the meaning of Ala.Code § 6-5-574, when he performs a title search, analyzes documents in the chain of title, forms an unwritten opinion on the status of title based on those documents, and then issues a...

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