· 7/2/2009
Admiral Insurance v. Abshire
Citations
- 574 F.3d 267
- 2009 U.S. App. LEXIS 14335
- 2009 WL 1887381
How courts have described this case
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- noting that “the class comprises only individuals or successors of individuals who were parties to the suits filed in the early 1990s”
- holding, in reviewing for whether removal was objectively reasonable, that “[a]lthough it may have been ‘objectively unreasonable’ for” the removing party to conclude it had a basis to remove, “we cannot say that reaching the opposite conclusion was an abuse of discretion”
- affirming the district court’s conclusion that removal was objectively reasonable where the only Fifth Circuit case on point left unsettled questions regarding the propriety of removal
- \Section 1446 protects a plaintiffs choice of forum from a defendant’s untimely effort to remove unless the defendant could not have removed the case before or did not have the same incentives to remove it\
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Judges: Wiener, Stewart, Clement
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