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Civil Procedure Keyed to Marcus
Griffin v. Lee
Citation:
621 F.3d 380 (2010)Facts
Griffin, represented by Lee, brought a Louisiana state court action seeking reformation of a trust and damages due to fraud against the trust’s corporate trustee and its officers. Griffin was a Mississippi citizen; Lee was a Louisiana citizen. Defendants removed the case to federal court based on diversity. (The corporate defendants were citizens of Delaware New York and Ohio; the individual defendants were Louisiana citizens). After Lee was allowed to withdraw as Griffin’s counsel, he moved to intervene as a party in the case to recover his attorney’s fees. The district court allowed the intervention and Lee was awarded $16,000 in attorney’s fees on his claim for approximately $54,000 by the district court after a bench trial. Griffin disputed the fee award. The Court of Appeals raised for itself the issue of whether the district court had jurisdiction over the claim for attorney’s fees.
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