Legal Opinion
Melder v. Allstate Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 30, 2005No. 04-30085PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RHESA HAWKINS BARKSDALE, Circuit Judge:
For this 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b) interlocutory appeal from a remand-denial, where diversity-jurisdiction removal was premised on claimed fraudulent joinder, at issue is whether there is any reasonable basis for predicting the non-diverse defendant could be liable under Louisiana law and, therefore, not fraudulently joined. (Our court now refers to “fraudulent joinder” as “improper joinder”. See Smallwood v. Illinois Central Railroad Co., 385 F.3d 568 n. 1 (5th Cir.2004)(en banc).) AFFIRMED and REMANDED.
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