Case Name: CHASE HOME FINANCE LLC, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Lucina CARRANCO, and all others, Defendant-Third Party-Plaintiff-Appellant, v. State Court of Cobb County, Third Party-Defendant-Appellee
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2005-11-30
Citations: 158 F. App'x 201
Docket Number: No. 05-12918; D.C. Docket No. 05-00694-CV-MHS-1
Parties: CHASE HOME FINANCE LLC, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Lucina CARRANCO, and all others, Defendant-Third Party-Plaintiff-Appellant, v. State Court of Cobb County, Third Party-Defendant-Appellee.
Judges: Before MARCUS, WILSON and PRYOR, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 158
Pages: 201–202

Head Matter:
CHASE HOME FINANCE LLC, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Lucina CARRANCO, and all others, Defendant-Third Party-Plaintiff-Appellant, v. State Court of Cobb County, Third Party-Defendant-Appellee.
No. 05-12918
D.C. Docket No. 05-00694-CV-MHS-1.
Non-Argument Calendar.
United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.
Nov. 30, 2005.
Lucina Carranco, Powder Springs, GA, pro se.
John C. Porter, Jr., Ronald J. Stay, Jr., Stites & Harbison, PLLC, Atlanta, GA, Hugh William Rowling, Jr., Sr. Associate County Attorney, Marietta, GA, Robert Michael Sheffield, McCalla, Raymer, et al, Roswell, GA, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.
Before MARCUS, WILSON and PRYOR, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Lucina Carranco appealed an order to remand a dispossessory action to state court and award attorney's fees for Carranco's improper removal. This court dismissed the appeal of the order of remand for lack of jurisdiction, but the appeal of the award of attorney's fees was permitted to go forward. Because Carranco did not challenge the award of attorney's fees in her brief, that argument is considered waived. See Rowe v. Schreiber, 139 F.3d 1381, 1382 n. 1 (11th Cir.1998).
In deference to Carranco's pro se status, even if we liberally construed Carranco's brief to address the underlying merits of the award of attorney's fees, we would affirm. The standard of review would be for abuse of discretion. Legg v. Wyeth, 428 F.3d 1317 (11th Cir.2005). Because Carranco concedes that the complaint against her did not raise a federal question and removal was not proper under Georgia v. Rachel, 384 U.S. 780, 792, 86 S.Ct. 1783, 1790, 16 L.Ed.2d 925 (1966), the district court did not abuse its discretion in awarding attorney's fees.
AFFIRMED.