Colson Update: Lawyer's Title cased dismissed for lack of subject matter jurisdiction
Judge Ozerden issued an opinion and order today dismissing the Lawyer's Title v. Colson case for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. Here is the Court's opinion. Like the Wachovia case, the intervention of non-diverse parties strips the Court of diversity jurisdiction. In this case Mississippi residents intervened. The case will wind up in state court, presumably in the Circuit Court of Harrison County.
The dismissal of the Lawyer's Title case will make it difficult for people to follow the Colson litigation. State court records in Mississippi are not available on-line. In addition, after one initial article the Sun-Herald does not appear to be following the litigation. You would think that given the case's magnitude, Colson's prominence on the Gulf Coast, and the impact on the scandal on many Coast residents that the Sun-Herald would have a reporter assigned to the case. I will continue to blog about the litigation in the future to the extent that I become aware of developments.
There is one assigned to the case but he is in Hancock county and he is so busy. His name is JR Walsh. I talk to him the other day and gave him the link to your blog. Also the Gulf Coast News message board deletes anything that is posted about Colson. I am worried that since Colson is so well connected on the Gulf Coast the case being moved to Harrison county will only help him but hurt those of us that he has screwed over. I guess that it does help that the FBI has all the cases and he is being watched very close.
We got notice that our house is now in fore-closure also.