Akin v. Ashland Chemical Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a plaintiff ‘cannot voluntarily invoke, and then disavow, federal jurisdiction’
• stating that the general removal rule “require[s] all defendants to join in the removal petition.”
• rejecting a duty to investigate and determine removability when “the right to remove may exist” and instead requiring “clear and unequivocal notice”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).