Deutsche Bank National Trust Company v. Steven Clayton Thomason

── Deutsche Bank National Trust Company v. Steven Clayton Thomason ── Court: Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Date: April 16, 2026 Category: NEW USCA11 Case: 25-10236 Document: 77-1 Date Filed: 04/16/2026 Page: 1 of 7 NOT FOR PUBLICATION In the United States Court of Appeals For the Eleventh Circuit ____________________ No. 25-10236 Non-Argument Calendar ____________________ DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, as Trustee for home equity mortgage loan asset-backed, trust series inabs 2006-A, home equity mortgage loan, asset-backed certificates series inabs 2006-A, Plaintiff-Appellee, versus STEVEN CLAYTON THOMASON, Defendant-Appellant. ____________________ Appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama D.C. Docket No. 2:25-cv-00070-ECM-KFP ____________________ Before ABUDU, KIDD, and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM: USCA11 Case: 25-10236 Document: 77-1 Date Filed: 04/16/2026 Page: 2 of 7 2 Opinion of the Court 25-10236 Deutsche Bank National Trust Company has initiated a law- suit in Alabama state court to eject Steven Thomason from a fore- closed property. Thomason, who is proceeding pro se, has made multiple unsuccessful attempts to remove this action to federal court. In this case, the district court remanded Thomason’s most recent removal attempt because it violated a filing injunction against him, a determination Thomason now appeals. After careful review, we find no abuse of discretion in the district court’s remand order and affirm. I. BACKGROUND For over a decade, Thomason has been pursuing litigation over a piece of property in Montgomery, Alabama. In September 2022, when resolving Thomason’s fifth action against Deutsche Bank, a district judge in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama found Thomason to be “an abusive and vexatious litigant.” “[T]o prevent him from continuing to impair th[e] [c]ourt’s function and harass Deutsche Bank and others, the [c]ourt enjoin[ed] Thomason from filing, in th[e] [c]ourt, future suits against Deutsche Bank or other individuals and/or entities with whom Thomason claims to be aggrieved pertaining to the subject property, its mortgage, and/or its foreclosure.” The court further “caution[ed] Thomason that any future cases pertaining to the subject property that [were] removed to th[e] [c]ourt could be summarily dismissed.” Nonetheless, Thomason persisted in his mission to contest the foreclosure of the Montgomery property. USCA11 Case: 25-10236 Document: 77-1 Date Filed: 04/16/2026 Page: 3 of 7 25-10236 Opinion of the Court 3 In June 2023, Deutsche Bank filed a case in Alabama state court seeking declaratory judgment and an order ejecting Thom- ason from the foreclosed property. During this state court case, one of Thomason’s daughters sought to intervene as a party and stay proceedings. After these requests were denied, Thomason re- moved the case to the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. However, the notice of removal was deemed untimely, and the case was remanded. In August 2024, Thomason made his second attempt to re- move this state case to the district