Parish of Cameron v. Devon Energy
CourtCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Date FiledOctober 6, 2026
Docket26-30505
StatusPublished
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United States Court of Appeals
for the Fifth Circuit
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United States Court of Appeals
Fifth Circuit
No. 26-30505
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October 5, 2026
Parish of Cameron, Lyle W. Cayce
Clerk
Plaintiff—Appellee,
State of Louisiana, formerly known as Louisiana Department
of Energy and Natural Resources, on behalf of Louisiana
Department of Conservation & Energy,
Intervenor Plaintiff—Appellee,
versus
Devon Energy Production Company, L.P., formerly known as
PennzEnergy Exploration and Production, L.L.C., formerly
known as Pennzoil Exploration & Production Company,
Defendant/Cross-Claimant—Appellant.
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Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Western District of Louisiana
USDC No. 2:26-CV-1335
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PUBLISHED ORDER
Before Smith, Southwick, and Wilson, Circuit Judges.
Per Curiam:
Devon Energy Production Company, L.P. (“Devon”), requests that
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this court recognize an automatic stay of the district court’s remand to the
Louisiana state courts while Devon appeals that remand. The district court
remanded because it held that Devon had improperly removed to federal
court under the federal officer removal statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1442. Devon
appealed that remand by exercising its right under 28 U.S.C. § 1447(d).
Devon contends that its § 1447(d) right to appeal entitles it to an
automatic stay of the remand. In the alternative, Devon asks for a discretion-
ary stay of that remand. Louisiana and Cameron Parish respond that the
remand is not automatically stayed and that Devon is not entitled to a dis-
cretionary stay.
Devon was entitled to an automatic stay of the district court’s remand
order once its § 1447(d) notice of appeal was docketed. The federal officer
removal statute and binding precedent require as much. And the Anti-
Injunction Act presents no bar to Devon’s entitlement to a stay.
I.
“We review a district court’s decision to stay a proceeding for abuse
of discretion, but to the extent that such a decision rests on an interpretation
of law, the review is de novo.” 1 Because this issue is legal—whether the
district court mistakenly interpreted the federal officer removal statute and
binding precedent when it failed to recognize an automatic stay—we review
that decision de novo.
II.
A short procedural history is in order. This case arose when various
Louisiana parishes—joined by the state of Louisiana as an intervenor—sued
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1
Plaquemines Par. v. Chevron USA, Inc., 84 F.4th 362, 373 (5th Cir. 2023) (quoting
Noatex Corp. v. King Constr. L.L.C., 732 F.3d 479, 488 (5th Cir. 2013)) (internal quotation
marks omitted).
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oil and gas companies in state courts for damage to the Louisiana coast.
Devon was one of the defendants. Devon removed to federal court under the
federal officer removal statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1442.
Section 1442 removes to federal court “[a] civil action or criminal pro-
secution that is commenced in a State court and that is directed against”
(1) “[t]he United States or any agency thereof or any officer (or any person
acting under that officer) of the United States or of any agency thereof”
whether in an individual or official capacity, “for or relating to any act under
color of such office or on account of any right, title or authority claimed under
any Act of Congress for the apprehension or punishment of criminals or the
collection of the revenue”; (2) a property holder whose title is derived from
federal officers and where such a suit would affect the validity of federal law;
or (3) an officer of the judiciary or Congress. 28 U.S.C. § 1442(a).
Devon removed on two grounds. It asserted that the suit challenged
Devon’s “conservation activities taken while acting in furtherance of the
federal government’s property interest in the [Rockefeller Wildlife Re-
fuge].” Br. of Devon at 7 (quoting Notice of Removal at 2–10). And it argued
removal was proper because “the lawsuit challenged Exxon’s [a co-defen-
dant’s] World War II avgas [aviation gas] production efforts under federal
contracts.” Id.
Louisiana moved to remand. As the remand motion lay pending,
Exxon settled and was excused from the case. Then, on August 19, 2026, the
district court issued an opinion in a closely related case that directly impli-
cated the one at bar. The opinion concluded that “Devon failed to satisfy the
‘acting under’ element required for federal officer removal because (1) it did
not operate under any World War II contracts and (2) it did not act under the
federal government through its Refuge conservation activities.” Br. of Devon
at 9 (citing Par. of Cameron v. Alpine Expl. Co., No. 2:26-CV-01337, 2026 WL
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2428143, at *14 (W.D. La. Aug. 19, 2026)). On August 21, 2026, the district
court entered a remand in this case.
Devon filed a notice of appeal, using § 1447(d). It also filed an emer-
gency motion to clarify or stay the remand order. The district court denied
Devon’s motion. Devon now moves for this court to recognize an automatic
stay of the remand as this court considers its appeal on the merits.
We agree and hold that an automatic stay of the district court’s
remand was effective once Devon’s notice of appeal under § 1447(d) was
docketed. We thus grant the motion for stay pending appeal.
III.
Like the Fourth and Eleventh Circuits, we hold that Devon is entitled
to an automatic stay for the duration of its appeal. We reach this conclusion
in three steps. First, the federal officer removal statute entitles Devon to
appeal a district court finding against removability in federal court. Second,
the Griggs principle, see Griggs v. Provident Consumer Disc. Co., 459 U.S. 56,
58 (1982), applies and renders available automatic stays in this federal officer
removal context. Third, the federal officer removal statute does not displace
the Griggs principle. 2
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Because the Griggs principle, as a self-contained matter, affords Devon an auto-
matic stay pending appeal—even after the district court transmitted a remand order—we
need not address Devon’s contention that Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 62(a) auto-
matically stayed the remand order following its entry. The Fourth and Eleventh Circuits,
too, recognized automatic stays once a § 1447(d) notice of appeal is docketed on the ground
of Griggs alone. See City of Martinsville v. Express Scripts, Inc., 128 F.4th 265, 270 (4th Cir.
2025) (“A district court is therefore immediately required to halt all proceedings covered
by the Griggs principle when a proper notice of appeal is docketed, whether or not the
parties ask it to.”); City of Brunswick v. Honeywell Int’l, Inc., 184 F.4th 1230, 1241–42 (11th
Cir. 2026) (“Relying, then, on the Griggs principle as explained in Coinbase, we hold that
the appeal of a motion to remand under § 1447(d) triggers an automatic stay of all district
court proceedings—including the remand order—pending resolution of the appeal.”),
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A.
Consider the federal officer removal statute. As discussed above,
§ 1442 permits the removal of state court proceedings to federal district court
when the matter implicates certain federal interests. 3
And § 1447(d) provides that “an order remanding a case to the State
court from which it was removed pursuant to section 1442 or 1443 of this title
shall be reviewable by appeal or otherwise.” In other words, § 1447(d) pro-
vides the right to an interlocutory appeal whenever a district court remands
to state court for want of removal jurisdiction under the federal officer
removal statute.
B.
Now consider the Griggs principle, which was most recently distilled
in Coinbase, Inc. v. Bielski, 599 U.S. 736 (2023). Coinbase concerned whether
there is an automatic stay of district court proceedings when a party, under
its statutory right in 9 U.S.C. § 16(a), files an interlocutory appeal of a district
court’s denial of its motion to compel arbitration. The Supreme Court an-
swered in the affirmative. Applying Griggs, it reasoned that when an issue is
appealed, the district court is “divest[ed] . . . of its control over those aspects
of the case involved in the appeal.” Coinbase, 599 U.S. at 740 (quoting Griggs,
459 U.S. at 58 (internal quotation marks omitted)).
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petition for cert. filed (Sept. 1, 2026) (No. 26-289).
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See Chevron USA Inc. v. Plaquemines Par., 608 U.S. 1, 6 (2026) (“Under the fed-
eral officer removal statute, a removing defendant must satisfy three requirements. 1) the
removing defendant must be the United States, a federal agency, a federal officer, or a per-
son ‘acting under’ a federal officer, such as certain private parties hired to assist federal
officers. 2) the suit must be ‘for or relating to any act under color of such office.’
§ 1442(a)(1). 3) the removing defendant must assert “a colorable federal defense.”)
(cleaned up).
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As a corollary of a § 16(a) appeal’s jurisdictional shift, an automatic
stay must issue. Otherwise, “Congress’ decision in § 16(a) to afford a right
to an interlocutory appeal would be largely nullified.” Id. at 743. Allowing
the trial to move forward whilst a court of appeals considers the arbitrability
issue would render “many of the asserted benefits of arbitration [such as
efficiency] . . . irretrievably lost.” Id. “Absent a stay, parties also could be
forced to settle to avoid the district court proceedings (including discovery
and trial) that they contracted to avoid through arbitration.” Id. Not staying
trial proceedings would also derogate judicial economy. Id. And “when Con-
gress wants to authorize an interlocutory appeal, but not to automatically stay
district court proceedings pending that appeal, Congress typically says so.”
Id. at 744.
In short, automatic stays must issue when “continuation of proceed-
ings in the district court largely defeats the point of the appeal.” Id. at 743
(citation omitted).
C.
The Griggs principle applies here. Its logic and justifications work
with equal force to the federal officer removal statute.
At bottom, Coinbase and Griggs teach that when an interlocutory
appeal is filed, an automatic stay obtains where not granting one would
“defeat[] the point of the appeal,” nullifying “Congress’ decision . . . to
afford a right to an interlocutory appeal” in turn. Id. at 743–44. 4 And they
instruct that the Griggs principle is a backdrop presumption read into other-
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Of course, an automatic stay pending an interlocutory appeal only stays the lower
court proceedings affected by the appeal. Unrelated lower court proceedings may proceed.
The contours of an automatic stays pending appeal are controlled by its lodestar of vindi-
cating “Congress’s decision” to provide a right to an interlocutory appeal, after all. See
Coinbase, 599 U.S. at 743–44.
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wise silent authorizations of interlocutory appeals. The Coinbase Court
recognized the Griggs principle’s trans-substantive nature: “In relying on
Griggs, Coinbase did not discriminate between arbitration and other appeals.
Indeed, it went out of its way to approvingly recognize that qualified immun-
ity and double jeopardy were ‘analogous contexts’ where the courts of
appeals have long imposed automatic stays upon appeal.” City of Martins-
ville, 128 F.4th at 271 (quoting Coinbase, 599 U.S. at 742 & n.2).
To begin, the facts here parallel those in Coinbase. “[J]ust as [the
Coinbase] appeal of a motion to compel arbitration decides the forum in which
proceedings will continue, the appeal of a remand order decides ‘whether the
case belongs in [state court] or instead in the district court.’ In both contexts,
‘the entire case is essentially ‘involved in the appeal.’’” City of Brunswick,
184 F.4th at 1240 (quoting Coinbase, 599 U.S. at 743 and Griggs, 459 U.S.
at 58) (citation modified).
As in Coinbase, not automatically staying the remand order could jeo-
pardize Devon’s appeal and undermine Congress’s decision to afford the
§ 1447(d) right to appeal. The point of Devon’s Section 1447(d) appeal—
and Section 1447(d) appeals generally—is to adjudicate its right to removal
under Section 1442. And the right to removal is—eponymously—a right to
be removed from the jurisdiction of state courts. Not staying the remand
order, therefore, would defeat Devon’s appeal, for Devon would be subjected
to the jurisdiction of the state court: It would lose the right that it seeks to
retain by exercising its § 1447(d) appeal. Further, “[u]nless the district court
or state court grants a discretionary stay pending appeal, it is likely that state
court proceedings during the appeal would require . . . litigation in state
court—[which could] moot[] this appeal . . . . Recognizing an automatic stay
in this context preserves Congress’s choice to grant appellate review of deci-
sions denying federal officer removal.” City of Brunswick, 184 F.4th at 1240
(citation modified).
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Granted, Coinbase applied Griggs to a stay of a federal district court’s
proceedings and did not implicate state court proceedings. Hence, Louisiana
distinguishes Coinbase, reasoning that Devon’s proposed stay would divest
“another sovereign of jurisdiction.” Br. of Louisiana at 13 (cleaned up).
This court’s decision in Plaquemines Parish averts Louisiana’s theory.
As Louisiana agrees, we noted in Plaquemines Parish that district courts retain
jurisdiction to enter discretionary stays when a party appeals under
§ 1447(d). Plaquemine Par., 84 F.4th at 371–73. Those discretionary stays,
like the automatic stay sought, would also divest state courts—another sov-
ereign—of their jurisdiction. If discretionary stays are available and comply
with federalism, then the same is true about automatic stays. Louisiana’s
argument proves too much.
Louisiana retorts that the Griggs principle’s applicability was fore-
closed by Plaquemines Parish. It avers that this court in Plaquemines Parish
applied Coinbase while evaluating the propriety of a discretionary stay. Loui-
siana concludes that Coinbase’s automatic stay holding should not extend to
the removal context, for the Plaquemines Parish court impliedly rejected the
availability of an automatic stay by citing Coinbase whilst discussing the dis-
cretionary stay factors.
Louisiana misreads Plaquemines Parish. While this court in Plaque-
mines Parish cited Coinbase, it did so in the procedural posture of the plain-
tiff’s asking for vacatur of the district court’s entry of a discretionary stay.
Id. at 366. We granted vacatur. Thus, the question of automatic stays was
not before us: We were reviewing whether the district court had erred in
granting a discretionary stay. Id. at 373.
Further, this court’s citation of Coinbase was limited to explaining
what counts as an “irreparable harm” under the traditional test for discre-
tionary stays. Id. at 375–76. And we cited Coinbase for its quotation of other
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cases that explained the scope of the irreparable harm prong. Id. (citing
Coinbase, 599 U.S. at 746–47 (quoting Renegotiation Bd. v. Bannercraft Cloth-
ing Co., 415 U.S. 1, 24 (1974), and Nken v. Holder, 556 U.S. 418, 434–35
(2009))). Thus, Plaquemines Parish’s cursory citation of Coinbase did not
concern the availability—or the lack thereof—of automatic stays in the
removal context. Plaquemines Parish did not generate binding precedent fore-
closing Coinbase’s application to officer removal. We do not overturn, con-
tradict, or abrogate Plaquemines Parish. 5
D.
The federal officer removal statute does not displace Griggs. Louisi-
ana postulates that § 1447(c) displaces the Griggs principle because it “estab-
lished . . . statutorily protected jurisdiction for the state court while any such
appeal is pending.” Br. of Louisiana at 12. Section 1447(c) provides, in rele-
vant part, that after “[a] certified copy of the order of remand [is] mailed by
the [district court] clerk to the clerk of the State court . . . [t]he State court
may thereupon proceed with such case.” Similarly, Louisiana argues that
because the “remand order has been transmitted to the state court, Coinbase
would have no work to do even if it otherwise applied: There are no district
court ‘proceedings’ to be stayed, for the district court is done with the case.”
Br. of Louisiana at 11.
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One could contend that this decision contradicts Plaquemines Parish because it
abrogates the availability of discretionary stays: Discretionary stays that Plaquemines Parish
found available. See Plaquemines Par., 84 F.4th at 371–73. Not so. We do not hold that
discretionary stays are unavailable, but only that an automatic stay obtains when a § 1447(d)
notice of appeal is docketed.
While this decision curtails the necessity for discretionary stays—going forward,
discretionary stays in the § 1447(d) context will be rare—we do not disturb Plaquemines
Parish’s holding that district courts retain jurisdiction to enter discretionary stays when a
party appeals under § 1447(d). See id. Discretionary stays remain available.
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Plaquemines Parish forecloses both arguments. Like Louisiana, the
Plaquemines Parish plaintiffs argued that “the district court lacked jurisdic-
tion to stay the remand order because the plain text of 28 U.S.C. § 1447(c)
shows that jurisdiction transfers to the state court upon the mailing of the
remand order, and jurisdiction to stay the order does not follow from juris-
diction to vacate it.” Plaquemines Par., 84 F.4th at 371–72.
This court rejected the foregoing argument on two grounds. “First,
we have stayed already-mailed remand orders at least twice since 2014, and
at least once in the face of identical arguments in a case closely related to this
one.” Id. at 372 (citing Humphries v. Elliott Co., 760 F.3d 414, 416 (5th Cir.
2014), and Order, Par. of Cameron v. BP Am., No. 19-30829 (5th Cir. Nov. 4,
2019), ECF No. 76). While not precedential, “they presuppose federal court
jurisdiction to stay an already-mailed remand order.” Id.
Second, this court concluded that the Plaquemines Parish plaintiffs
over-read § 1447(c). We reasoned that their contention “is inconsistent with
the undisputed proposition that the district court retains jurisdiction to vacate
its already-mailed remand order because the order is appealable under sec-
tion 1447(d).” Id. And while this court stated in Arnold v. Garlock that “the
district court is divested of jurisdiction . . . . [when] the remand order . . . is
certified and mailed by the clerk of the district court,” 278 F.3d 426, 438 (5th
Cir. 2001), “Arnold speaks only to remand orders that are not appealable . . . .
Instead, where a remand order is appealable under Section 1447(d), the
remand order is treated like any other final judgment [and the district court
retains jurisdiction].” Plaquemines Par., 84 F.4th at 372 (1994) (citation and
internal quotation marks omitted).
And “because [the district court] had jurisdiction to vacate its remand
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order, it also had jurisdiction to stay its remand order.” Id. 6
Like the Plaquemines Parish plaintiffs’ argument, Louisiana’s conten-
tion fails. As Plaquemines Parish teaches, § 1447(c) does not foreclose discre-
tionary stays because a district court “retain[s] jurisdiction to vacate its
already-mailed remand order,” granting them “jurisdiction to stay its
remand order[s]” in turn. Id. In other words, Section 1447(c) does not
“statutorily protect[],” Br. of Louisiana at 12, state court jurisdiction from
discretionary stays.
Automatic stays operating in the same removal context are no differ-
ent. They work the same: Divesting a court proceeding of its legal force. And
they rely on the same jurisdictional authority: the district court’s residual jur-
isdiction to stay its own remand orders. If Louisiana’s theory were correct,
then the Plaquemines Parish court’s consideration of a discretionary stay
would prove unnecessary: Any stay would be foreclosed by § 1447(c). And
like Devon’s proposed stay, the stay discretionarily vacated in Plaquemines
Parish was entered after (in the Plaquemines Parish case over one month after)
the district court “mailed its remand order to state court.” Plaquemines Par.,
84 F.4th at 366. Nonetheless, in Plaquemines Parish, we vacated the district
court’s stay by considering the discretionary stay factors and noting that
§ 1447(c) serves no bar to stays in the removal context, evincing the availa-
bility of stays, discretionary and automatic. 7
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6
See also Christopher D. Moore, So-Called “Administrative Stays” in Trump 2.0,
104 Tex. L. Rev. Online 1, 9 (2025) (“A stay is . . . a temporary version of vacatur.”)
7
See also City of Martinsville, 128 F.4th at 271 (“Distinctions require meaningful
differences to matter; a decision’s rationale binds us even if some immaterial facts differ
. . . . As Justice Gorsuch explained in Ramos v. Louisiana, ‘[i]t is usually a judicial decision’s
reasoning—its ratio decidendi—that allows it to have life and effect in the disposition of
future cases.’”) (quoting Ramos v. Louisiana, 590 U.S. 83, 104 (2020)).
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If anything, the Griggs principle augurs a greater availability of auto-
matic stays. It is a “background principle” that “reflects a longstanding
tenet of American procedure.” Coinbase, 599 U.S. at 740. Therefore, “when
Congress wants to authorize an interlocutory appeal, but not to automatically
stay district court proceedings pending that appeal, Congress typically says
so.” Id. at 744. It is presumptively read into authorizations of interlocutory
appeal, statutory silence notwithstanding. Id. Griggs did not apply in Plaque-
mines Par., for this court reviewed a discretionary stay. Nonetheless, we held
that § 1447(c) did not displace the availability of discretionary stays. Accord-
ingly, it is hard to imagine how it would rebut the Griggs principle’s presump-
tion of automatic stays pending appeal.
Further, Devon’s proposed stay targets the district court’s remand
order, not state court proceedings themselves. Unlike injunctions, which
target particular parties, stays “operate[] [upon] the judicial proceeding
itself” by “halting or postponing some portion of the proceeding, or by tem-
porarily divesting an order of enforceability.” Nken, 556 U.S. at 428 (citation
omitted). Here, “Devon has moved for a stay of the District Court’s Remand
Order, not of any state court proceeding.” Devon’s Reply Br. at 7 (emphasis
added). And Plaquemines Parish teaches that the district court retains juris-
diction to stay its previously mailed remand order. Plaquemines Par., 84 F.4th
at 372. Contrary to Louisiana’s assertion, there is a valid district court
proceeding—a remand—to be stayed. Coinbase controls.
IV.
Because the automatic stay deprives the state court of jurisdiction, the
Anti-Injunction Act provides no bar to a stay in Devon’s favor: There is no
state court proceeding to enjoin. And even if Devon is seeking an injunction
to stay state court proceedings, it is not barred by the Anti-Injunction Act
because it is in aid of this Court’s jurisdiction.
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A.
The Anti-Injunction Act provides that “A court of the United States
may not grant an injunction to stay proceedings in a State court except as
expressly authorized by Act of Congress, or where necessary in aid of its jur-
isdiction, or to protect or effectuate its judgments.” 28 U.S.C. § 2283.
To be barred by the Anti-Injunction Act, Devon’s remedy must enjoin
to “stay” state court proceedings. But the automatic stay here divests the
state court of jurisdiction, so there are no valid state court proceedings to
enjoin.
As aforementioned, stays “operate[] [upon] the judicial proceeding
itself.” Nken, 556 U.S. at 428. And even after a § 1447(d) appeal, a district
court retains jurisdiction to stay its own remand orders owing to its juris-
diction to vacate its own remand; the instant automatic stay operates under
that residual jurisdiction. Plaquemines Par., 84 F.4th at 371–73. Considering
its function and jurisdictional context, the instant stay temporarily deprives
the district court’s remand order of its legal effect.
And by divesting the remand of its legal force, the stay turns off the
state court’s jurisdictional “pipeline,” rendering any state court proceedings
a nullity in turn. The remand order is the state court’s source of jurisdiction
for “the removal of a case from state court to federal court ends the power of
the state court to act . . . . The jurisdiction of the state court is not restored
unless and until the federal court remands the case.” E. D. Sys. Corp. v. Sw.
Bell Tel. Co., 674 F.2d 453, 458 (5th Cir. 1982) (citations omitted). Absent
state court jurisdiction, there are no valid “proceedings in a State court” to
enjoin. 28 U.S.C. § 2283.
B.
But suppose that Devon is seeking an injunction to stay state court
proceedings. Arguably, the automatic stay here enjoins the district court
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because it is recognized by an appellate court but uses—and thus directs—
the district court’s residual jurisdiction: The paradigmatic example of an
injunction’s compelling action in personam. And arguably, the automatic stay
stays state court proceedings, for it divests state courts of authority to hear
the case by divesting their predicate jurisdictional authority: the district
court’s remand order. If so, the instant automatic stay falls within the Anti-
Injunction Act’s plain terms.
Even then, Devon’s proposed stay is not barred by the Anti-Injunction
Act. It would be “necessary in aid” of [this Court’s] jurisdiction. 28 U.S.C.
§ 2283. As Griggs teaches, when an issue is appealed, the district court is
“divest[ed] . . . of its control over those aspects of the case involved in the
appeal.” Coinbase, 599 U.S. at 740 (citing Griggs, 459 U.S. at 58). Jurisdic-
tional concerns animated the foregoing principle: It “grew from the general
understanding that a federal district court and a federal court of appeals
should not attempt to assert jurisdiction over a case simultaneously.” City of
Brunswick, 184 F.4th at 1239 (citing Coinbase, 459 U.S. at 58) (internal quo-
tation marks omitted). Coinbase extended that principle to protect appellate
jurisdiction from parallel district court proceedings pending a § 16(a) appeal.
Id. And this Court, alongside the Fourth and Eleventh Circuits, now extends
that principle to protect appellate jurisdiction from parallel state court
proceedings.
Therefore, an automatic stay here is “necessary in aid” of this court’s
jurisdiction. The Anti-Injunction Act, in turn, does not apply.
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The motion for stay, pending appeal, of the district court’s order of
remand is GRANTED.
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