Eleanor Cook Goins v. Richard Allen Goins

OPINION

CLARK, Chief Judge:

Eleanor Goins sued her former husband and seventeen of his relatives and associates in federal district court for conspiring to and wrongfully taking and withholding their child from her lawful custody. She sought damages and modification of a state court custody order. The district judge determined that this case fell within the domestic relations exception to federal diversity jurisdiction and dismissed it for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. We affirm.

I

Eleanor Goins left her husband, Richard Goins, in Louisiana and moved with her minor child, Aron Benjamin…