Lummis v. White

Full title: WILLIAM RICE LUMMIS, TEXAS TEMPORARY ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF HOWARD…

Court: United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.[fn*

Date published: Aug 26, 1982

686 F.2d 225 (5th Cir. 1982)

Opinion

No. 79-2898.

August 26, 1982.

Andrews Kurth, O. Clayton Lilienstern, Houston, Tex., Graves, Dougherty, Hearon, Moody Garwood, R. James George, Jr., Austin, Tex., James W. Moore, New Haven, Conn., for plaintiff-appellant, cross appellee.

Paul J. Van Osselaer, Austin, Tex., M. Carr Ferguson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tax Div., Dept. of Justice, Gilbert E. Andrews, Chief, Appellate Section, Richard Farber, Atty., Washington, D.C., Brown, Maroney, Rose, Baker Barber, Charlie D. Dye, Austin, Tex., Jerome B. Falk, Steven L. Mayer, Jerome B. Falk, Jr., San Francisco, Cal., Gibson, Dunn Crutcher, Ronald E. Gother, Los Angeles, Cal., McGinnis, Lochridge Kilgore, Rick Harrison, Austin, Tex., Clark, Thomas, Winters Shapiro, Donald S. Thomas, Austin, Tex., for defendants-appellees.

Appeals from the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas; Jack Roberts, Judge.

ON REMAND FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

Before VANCE and FRANK D. JOHNSON, Jr., Circuit Judges, and THOMAS,^__ District Judge.

__ District Judge of the Southern District of Alabama, sitting by designation.

PER CURIAM:

The Supreme Court, ___ U.S. ___, 102 S.Ct. 2325, 72 L.Ed.2d 694, having held that the eleventh amendment bars the statutory interpleader sought in this case, the judgment of the district court, 491 F. Supp. 5, dismissing the action is affirmed.

AFFIRMED.