Clarence Enochs v. Lampasas County

I must disagree with my colleagues, whom I respect greatly, that the district court’s decision to decline to remand a case properly before it amounted to an abuse of discretion. Section 1367(c)’s text and Supreme Court precedent make clear that there is no bright-line rule for determining whether a district coxxrt should retain pendent state-law claims, and our own precedent directs us to review these decisions mindful of the “wide discretion vested in the trial court to order a remand of state claims on the heels of a dismissal of federal claims.” Guzzino v. Felterman, 191 F.3d 588, 595 (5th…