Case Name: William Rice LUMMIS, Texas Temporary Administrator of the Estate of Howard R. Hughes, Jr., Deceased, Plaintiff-Appellant, Cross Appellee, v. Mark WHITE, Bob Bullock, Kenneth Cory, H. B. Alvord, et al., Defendants-Appellees. Kenneth Cory, H. B. Alvord, Defendants-Appellees, Cross Appellants
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1982-08-26
Citations: 686 F.2d 225
Docket Number: No. 79-2898
Parties: William Rice LUMMIS, Texas Temporary Administrator of the Estate of Howard R. Hughes, Jr., Deceased, Plaintiff-Appellant, Cross Appellee, v. Mark WHITE, Bob Bullock, Kenneth Cory, H. B. Alvord, et al., Defendants-Appellees. Kenneth Cory, H. B. Alvord, Defendants-Appellees, Cross Appellants.
Judges: Before VANCE and FRANK D. JOHNSON, Jr., Circuit Judges, and THOMAS, District Judge.
Reporter: Federal Reporter 2d Series
Volume: 686
Pages: 225–226

Head Matter:
William Rice LUMMIS, Texas Temporary Administrator of the Estate of Howard R. Hughes, Jr., Deceased, Plaintiff-Appellant, Cross Appellee, v. Mark WHITE, Bob Bullock, Kenneth Cory, H. B. Alvord, et al., Defendants-Appellees. Kenneth Cory, H. B. Alvord, Defendants-Appellees, Cross Appellants.
No. 79-2898.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
Aug. 26, 1982.
Andrews & Kurth, 0. Clayton Lilienstern, Houston, Tex., Graves, Dougherty, Hearon, Moody & Garwood, R. James George, Jr., Austin, Tex., James W. Moore, New Haven, Conn., for plaintiff-appellant, cross appellee.
Paul J. Van Osselaer, Austin, Tex., M. Carr Ferguson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tax Div., Dept, of Justice, Gilbert E. Andrews, Chief, Appellate Section, Richard Farber, Atty., Washington, D. C., Brown, Maroney, Rose, Baker & Barber, Charlie D. Dye, Austin, Tex,, Jerome B. Falk, Steven L. Mayer, Jerome B. Falk, Jr., San Francisco, Cal., Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Ronald E. Goth-er, Los Angeles, Cal., McGinnis, Lochridge & Kilgore, Rick Harrison, Austin, Tex., Clark, Thomas, Winters & Shapiro, Donald S. Thomas, Austin, Tex., for defendants-appellees.
Former Fifth Circuit case, Section 9(1) of Public Law 96-452 — October 14, 1980.
District Judge of the Southern District of Alabama, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
ON REMAND FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
Before VANCE and FRANK D. JOHNSON, Jr., Circuit Judges, and THOMAS, District Judge.
PER CURIAM:
The Supreme Court,-U.S. -, 102 S.Ct. 2325, 72 L.Ed.2d 694, having held that the eleventh amendment bars the statutory interpleader sought in this case, the judgment of the district court, 491 F.Supp. 5, dismissing the action is affirmed.
AFFIRMED.