Acosta v. Direct Merchants Bank

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• holding that defendant 4 waived its right to removal by filing a permissive cross-complaint against plaintiff in state 5 court, even though defendant removed the case to federal court only four days later
• holding filing counterclaim in state court waived the right to removal
• “A waiver of the removal right must be clear and unequivocal.”
• the defendant affirmatively waived removal rights by filing a voluntary cross-claim
• relying on Bayside 24 Developers, 43 F.3d at 1240

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).