Legal Opinion
Victoria Palms Resort Inc. v. City of Donna
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 30, 2007No. 06-40687UnpublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDITH H. JONES, Chief Judge: *
Appellee City of Donna, Texas (“City”), having spawned costly, time-consuming, and dubious procedural complexity in the extended course of litigation between these parties, moves to dismiss this appeal for lack of our appellate jurisdiction. We review de novo, and are constrained to agree for the following reasons.
The City contends that it timely removed a case against it filed by Victoria Palms into federal district court in the Southern District of Texas. Notably, when the City filed its removal petition, the litigation between the City and Victoria Palms was…
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