Legal Opinion
Kale Flagg v. Denise Elliot
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 24, 2016No. 14-31169PublishedCited by 217 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
W. EUGENE DAVIS, Circuit Judge:
We took this case en banc to decide whether the district court erred by dis.missing the non-diverse defendants as improperly joined and exercising diversity jurisdiction over the remaining diverse defendants. We conclude that the district court did not err by concluding that the plaintiff had improperly joined the non-diverse defendants because the plaintiff had not exhausted his claims against those parties as required by statute. Therefore, the district court properly exercised jurisdiction over the diverse defendants which remained in the case.
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