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IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT

________________________ No. 19

- 12581 Non

- Argument Calendar

________________________ D.C. Docket No. 1:19

- cv - 03043

- TWT

DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, as trustee for Fifteen Piedmont Center, Plaintiff

- Ap pellee,

versus CHRISTOPHER M. HUNT, SR., Defendant

- Appell ant

.

________________________ App eal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

________________________ (November 4, 2019) Before TJOFLAT , JORDAN, and NEWSOM , Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM:

Case: 19-12581 Date Filed: 11/04/2019 Page: 1 of 32 I. Deutsche Bank filed a dispossessory proceeding against Christopher M.
Hunt Sr., a Georgia state resident, in Georgia state court. The state court granted Deutsche Bank a writ of possession. Rather than post the supersedeas bond required by the s uperior c ourt to appeal that ruling, Hunt removed the dispossessory action to federal court

. H e sought a temporary restraining order (“TRO”) against the state court’s ruling. The District Court denied the TRO, and Hunt appeal ed that interlocutory ruling . We affirm.
II. We must first determine whether we have appellate jurisdiction over this

c ase. We conclude that we do. The denial of a preliminary injunction is an appealable interlocutory order. 28 U.S.C. § 1292(a)(1). In contrast, ordinarily, the denial of a TRO is not appealable. See AT&T Broadband v. Tec h Commc ’ ns, Inc. , 381 F.3d 1309, 1314 (11th Cir. 2004)

. However, in certain circumstances, we treat the denial of a TRO as the denial of a preliminary injunction , and therefore we have jurisdiction to review the interlocutory order. AT&T Broadband , 381 F.3d at 1314. We may review a TRO if three conditions are satisfied: “(1) the duration of the relief sought

. . . exceeds that allowed by a TRO (ten days), (2) the notice and hearing sought . .

Case: 19-12581 Date Filed: 11/04/2019 Page: 2 of 33 . suggest that the relief sought was a preliminary injunction, and (3) the requested relief seeks to change the status quo.” Id. Here, appellate jurisdiction exists to review the TRO because it is sufficiently similar to a pr eliminary injunction. Specifically, (1) the duration of the relief Hunt sought would have exceed ed ten days , (2) the notice referred to a preliminary injunction and alleged irreparable harm

— the dispossession would be catastrophic for Hunt’s home

- based bus iness , and (3) the relief sought would have change d the status quo, namely the right to possession of Hunt’s home

. Accordingly, we have jurisdiction to consider th is appeal.
III. We next must consider whether the District Court properly concluded that
Hunt was not entitled to the TRO that he sought. We conclude that it did

. Hunt is a resident of Georgia and Deutsche Bank brought an action in a Georgia state court against him. Therefore, Hunt’s removal of the action to federal court was improper

. 28 U.S.C. § 1441(b)(2) (a defendant in a diversity case cannot remove the case to federal court if any defendant is “a citizen of the S tate in which such action is br ought” ). As such, the District Court properly hel d that he was not entitled to any relief in federal court. Accordingly, w e affirm. AFFIRMED. Case: 19-12581 Date Filed: 11/04/2019 Page: 3 of 3