Community State Bank v. Strong

651 F.3d 1241

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
• Decided: April 20, 2009
• Docket: 06-11582
• Status: Published

Opinion

565 F.3d 1305 (2009)

COMMUNITY STATE BANK, Cash America Financial Services, Inc., Cash America International, Inc., Georgia Cash America, Inc., Daniel R. Feehan, Petitioners-Appellants,
v.
James STRONG, Respondent-Appellee.

No. 06-11582.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

April 20, 2009.

John G. Parker, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, LLP, Christopher J. Willis, Daniel D. Zegura, Richard H. Sinkfield, Rogers & Hardin, LLP, Atlanta, GA, Alan S. Kaplinsky, Ballard, Spahr, Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP, Philadelphia, PA, for Petitioners-Appellants.

Roy E. Barnes, John Raymond Bevis, The Barnes Law Group, Marietta, GA, Jennifer Auer Jordan, Pate & Brody, LLP, Atlanta, GA, for Respondent-Appellee.

Imre Stephen Szalai, Cal. Western Sch. of Law, San Diego, CA, Pierre H. Bergeron, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, L.L.P., Cincinnati, OH, Mark C. Dosker, Squire, Sanders & Dempey, San Francisco, CA, for Amicus Curiae.

Before EDMONDSON, Chief Judge, and TJOFLAT, BIRCH, DUBINA, BLACK, CARNES, BARKETT, HULL, MARCUS, WILSON, PRYOR and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.

BY THE COURT:

On September 10, 2007, we granted rehearing en banc of our decision in Community State Bank v. Strong, 485 F.3d 597 (11th Cir.2007), to consider whether a federal court may look through a petition to compel arbitration of a claim in order to determine whether the court has jurisdiction. See Community State Bank v. Strong, 508 F.3d 576 (11th Cir.2007). In the time since we granted rehearing en banc, the Supreme Court has granted certiorari in Discover Bank v. Vaden, 396 F.3d 366 (4th Cir.2005), to decide essentially the same question, and on March 9, 2009, issued its decision in Vaden. See Vaden v. Discover Bank, ___ U.S. ___, 129 S.Ct. 1262, 173 L.Ed.2d 206 (2009). The Supreme Court determined that a federal court may look through a petition to compel arbitration to determine whether it has jurisdiction over the petition. See id. at 1268.

In light of this development, we have concluded that this case no longer merits en banc review. See United States v. Drury, 396 F.3d 1143, 1144 (11th Cir.2005) (en banc) ("Rehearing en banc is disfavored and ordinarily will not be ordered unless it is necessary to maintain uniformity in the Court's decisions or ... if the proceeding involves a question of exceptional importance.") (quoting Fed. R.App. Proc. 35(a); citing 11th Cir. R. 35-3).

Accordingly, we VACATE the order of September 10, 2007 granting rehearing en banc, and REMAND the case to the panel for further consideration in light of Vaden.