Legal Opinion

Bryan v. BellSouth Communications, Inc.

Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

Decided July 3, 2007No. 06-1746PublishedCited by 28 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Affirmed by published opinion. Judge TRAXLER wrote the opinion, in which Judge KING and Judge GREGORY joined.

OPINION

TRAXLER, Circuit Judge.

Tomi Bryan filed in North Carolina state court a putative class action against BellSouth Communications, Inc. After BellSouth removed the action to federal court, the district court rejected three of Bryan’s claims on the merits, declined to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over the remaining claim, and remanded that claim to state court. On appeal, we held that the remanded claim was a federal claim that should have been dismissed on the merits as well.…

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