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USCA11 Case: 23-11312    Document: 22-1      Date Filed: 06/26/2023   Page: 1 of 3

                                                   [DO NOT PUBLISH]
                                    In the
                United States Court of Appeals
                         For the Eleventh Circuit

                           ____________________

                                 No. 23-11312
                           Non-Argument Calendar
                           ____________________

       KATHERINE M. RUDD,
       individually, and as Co-trustee of the J.W. Goodwin
       and Virginia M. Goodwin Grandchildren's Trust,
       TIFFANY RUDE ATKINSON,
       individually, and as Co-trustee of the J.W. Goodwin
       and Virginia M. Goodwin Grandchildren's Trust,
                                                    Plaintiﬀs-Appellants,
       versus
       BRANCH BANKING & TRUST COMPANY,
       Co-trustee of the Joy Goodwin Adams Irrevocable
       Trust dated 01/02/87 and the Joy Goodwin Adams
       Irrevocable Trust dated 07/19/89,
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       2                     Opinion of the Court                23-11312

                                 Defendant-ThirdParty Plaintiﬀ-Appellee,

       WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.,
       in its corporate capacity and as Co-trustee of the
       Joy Goodwin Adams Irrevocable Trust dated
       01/02/87 and the J.W. Goodwin Marital Trust,

                                                              Defendant,

                           ____________________

                 Appeal from the United States District Court
                    for the Northern District of Alabama
                     D.C. Docket No. 2:13-cv-02016-SGC
                          ____________________

       Before: WILSON, JORDAN, and NEWSOM, Circuit Judges.
       PER CURIAM:
             The motion to dismiss filed by Branch Banking & Trust
       Company (“BB&T”) and Joy Adams is GRANTED, and this appeal
       is DISMISSED. Katherine Rudd and Tiffany Rudd Atkinson appeal
       from the district court’s March 22, 2023 order that dismissed their
       claims against BB&T and two of BB&T’s three third-party claims
       against Adams. However, that order was not final and appealable
       because BB&T’s third-party indemnification claim against Adams
       remained pending and the district court did not certify the order
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       23-11312               Opinion of the Court                          3

       for immediate review. See 28 U.S.C. §§ 1291, 1292; CSX Transp.,
       Inc. v. City of Garden City, 235 F.3d 1325, 1327 (11th Cir. 2000); Su-
       preme Fuels Trading FZE v. Sargeant, 689 F.3d 1244, 1245–46 (11th
       Cir. 2012) (holding that an order that disposes of fewer than all
       claims against all parties to an action is not final or immediately
       appealable unless certified for immediate review); Fed. R. Civ. P.
       54(b); Plaintiff A v. Schair, 744 F.3d 1247, 1252–53 (11th Cir. 2014).
       Furthermore, unlike the fee-shifting at issue in the cases on which
       the plaintiffs rely, BB&T’s indemnification claim sought attorney’s
       fees from the third-party defendant for defending against plaintiffs’
       claims regardless of which party prevailed on those claims. See Bu-
       dinich v. Becton Dickinson & Co., 486 U.S. 196, 197, 199–202 (1988);
       Ray Haluch Gravel Co. v. Cent. Pension Fund of Int’l Union of Operating
       Eng’rs & Participating Emps., 571 U.S. 177, 180–81, 183–86, 189–90
       (2014).