Mealey's (October 12, 2016, 8:39 AM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — A Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Oct. 10 vacated a ruling denying franchisees’ motion to amend their complaint as moot and remanded to Texas federal court a case involving a dispute between Burger King Europe Gmbh (BKE) and the franchisees who operate numerous German Burger King restaurants, saying that a Texas federal judge improperly denied the motion because she gave no reason for it, the motion was timely filed and there’s no evidence in the record that additional claims would have been moot (SGIC Strategic Global Investment Capital, et al. v. Burger King Europe Gmbh, No. 15-10943, 5th Cir.; 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 18304)....