U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, 2023

Prestige Home Investments, LLC v. Sue Hopkins

Prestige Home Investments, LLC v. Sue Hopkins
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · Decided August 3, 2023

Prestige Home Investments, LLC v. Sue Hopkins

Opinion

USCA11 Case: 23-11150 Document: 7-1 Date Filed: 08/03/2023 Page: 1 of 3

[DO NOT PUBLISH] In the United States Court of Appeals For the Eleventh Circuit ____________________ No. 23-11150 Non-Argument Calendar ____________________ PRESTIGE HOME INVESTMENTS, LLC, Plaintiff-Appellee, versus SUE V. HOPKINS, THOMAS HOPKINS, DAVID DASILVA,

Defendants-Appellants.

____________________ Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia USCA11 Case: 23-11150 Document: 7-1 Date Filed: 08/03/2023 Page: 2 of 3

2 Opinion of the Court 23-11150 D.C. Docket No. 1:23-cv-01088-AT ____________________ Before WILSON, JORDAN, and LAGOA, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM: We issued a jurisdictional question asking the parties to ad- dress whether we have jurisdiction to review the district court’s order remanding the action to Georgia state court and specifically whether the action was removed under 28 U.S.C. § 1442 or § 1443.

None of the parties have filed a response to the jurisdictional ques- tion, and the deadline for doing so has passed.

Upon our review of the record, we DISMISS this appeal for lack of jurisdiction. Because the district court based its remand or- der on a lack of subject matter jurisdiction, our review is barred under § 1447(d). See 28 U.S.C. § 1447(c), (d); New v. Sports & Recre- ation, Inc., 114 F.3d 1092, 1095-96 (11th Cir. 1997).

Further, no exception applies to this jurisdictional bar be- cause this action was not removed under either 28 U.S.C. §§ 1442 or 1443. See 28 U.S.C. §§ 1442, 1443, 1447(d). While Appellants asserted that Appellee violated their civil rights by initiating this dispossessory action, they did not allege that the state court pre- vented them from raising that assertion in a defense or counter- claim. See 28 U.S.C. § 1443(1) (permitting removal by parties who are “denied, or cannot enforce in the courts of such state a right under any law providing for the equal civil rights of citizens of the United States”). Indeed, Appellants raised the claim in their answer USCA11 Case: 23-11150 Document: 7-1 Date Filed: 08/03/2023 Page: 3 of 3

23-11150 Opinion of the Court 3 filed in the state court one day before they removed the action.

Moreover, although Appellants cited 28 U.S.C. §§ 1441 and 1446 as their bases of removal, they did not expressly cite § 1443.

All pending motions are DENIED as moot.

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