Dana Escoffier v. iStorage PO, LLC

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
• Decided: May 29, 2025
• Docket: 24-11475
• Status: Unpublished

Opinion

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[DO NOT PUBLISH] In the United States Court of Appeals For the Eleventh Circuit

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No. 24-11475 Non-Argument Calendar ____________________

DANA ESCOFFIER, Plaintiff-Appellant, versus ISTORAGE PO, LLC,

Defendant-Appellee.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama D.C. Docket No. 1:22-cv-00198-JB-C ____________________ USCA11 Case: 24-11475 Document: 28-1 Date Filed: 05/29/2025 Page: 2 of 3

2 Opinion of the Court 24-11475

Before JORDAN, BRANCH, and LUCK, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM: Dana Escoffier appeals from the district court’s April 19, 2024, order dismissing his amended complaint with prejudice for failure to prosecute. We remanded for the limited purpose of determining the citizenship of the defendant, iStorage PO, LLC, and whether diver- sity jurisdiction existed when this action was filed. We instructed the district court that (1) if it determined that the parties were com- pletely diverse in citizenship, then it should enter an order to that effect and return the record, as supplemented, to this Court for fur- ther proceedings, and (2) if it determined that complete diversity did not exist, then it should vacate its rulings and dismiss the action for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. On remand, the district court found that complete diversity did not exist. It entered an order vacating the April 19, 2024, order and dismissing the action without prejudice for lack of subject mat- ter jurisdiction. As a result of the district court’s order on remand, this appeal is now moot because there is no longer a merits decision to review. See Brooks v. Ga. State Bd. of Elections, 59 F.3d 1114, 1118 (11th Cir. 1995) (explaining that we lack authority to adjudicate moot contro- versies and must dismiss an appeal if something happens while the case is on appeal that makes it impossible to grant a prevailing party effectual relief). USCA11 Case: 24-11475 Document: 28-1 Date Filed: 05/29/2025 Page: 3 of 3

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Accordingly, this appeal is DISMISSED. All pending mo- tions are DENIED as moot.