Brookshire Brothers Holding Inc v. Tony Adamson; Homer Holden; Jay Wright

United States Court of Appeals
Fifth Circuit
F I L E D
September 10, 2007
Charles R. Fulbruge III
Clerk
IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT
No. 06-30586
BROOKSHIRE BROTHERS HOLDING INC; BROOKSHIRE BROTHERS
MANAGEMENT INC; BROOKSHIRE BROTHERS LTD
Plaintiffs-Appellants
v.
TONY ADAMSON; HOMER HOLDEN; JAY WRIGHT
Defendants-Appellees
Consolidated with
No. 06-30968
BROOKSHIRE BROTHERS HOLDING INC; BROOKSHIRE BROTHERS
MANAGEMENT INC; BROOKSHIRE BROTHERS LTD
Plaintiffs-Appellants
v.
JIM LAWRENCE
Defendant-Appellee
Appeals from the United States District Court
for the Western District of Louisiana, Lake Charles
(04-CV-1150)
Before DAVIS, BARKSDALE, and PRADO, Circuit Judges.

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No. 06-30586 c/w No. 06-30968
* Pursuant to 5TH CIR. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not
be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5TH CIR.
R. 47.5.4.
1 Other defendants are named in this suit, but the Rule 54(b) judgments appealed from
only concern the dismissals of Brookshire’s claims against Defendants.
2
PER CURIAM:*
In these consolidated appeals, Plaintiffs-Appellants Brookshire Brothers
Holding, Inc., Brookshire Brothers Management, Inc., and Brookshire Brothers,
Ltd. (collectively, “Brookshire”) appeal the district court’s judgments dismissing
their claims against Defendants-Appellees Tony Adamson, Homer Holden, Jay
Wright, and Jim Lawrence (collectively, “Defendants”)1 for failure to state a
claim upon which relief can be granted under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure
12(b)(6). The district court, however, dismissed the action against Defendants
on two independent grounds: (1) failure to state a claim under Rule 12(b)(6); and
(2) lack of personal jurisdiction under Rule 12(b)(2). On appeal, Brookshire does
not purport to challenge the district court’s dismissals based on lack of personal
jurisdiction. Consequently, we dismiss these appeals. Cf. John Doe #1 v.
Veneman, 380 F.3d 807, 814 (5th Cir. 2004) (recognizing that “‘a federal court
has neither the power to render advisory opinions nor to decide questions that
cannot affect the rights of litigants in the case before them’”) (quoting Preiser v.
Newkirk, 422 U.S. 395, 401 (1975) (internal quotation marks and citations
omitted)).
DISMISSED.

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