In an employment discrimination action, dismissal of the complaint for lack of jurisdiction is reversed where district courts have diversity jurisdiction over appeals from state administrative agency decisions when state law places such appeals in state trial courts.
Read BNSF Rwy. Co. v. O'Dea, No. 08-35075
Appellate Information
Argued and Submitted June 1, 2009
Filed July 16, 2009
Judges
Opinion by Judge Fernandez
Concurrence by Judge Fisher
Counsel
For Appellant:
Bryan P. Neal, Thompson & Knight L.L.P., Dallas, TX
Stephen F. Fink, Thompson & Knight L.L.P., Dallas, TX
For Appellee:
