Akin v. Big Three Industries

How courts have described this case

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• 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”
• noting that cases resulting from events “occurring within federal enclaves may be removed to federal district court as a part of federal question jurisdiction”
• noting that cases resulting from events “occurring within federal enclaves may be removed to federal district court as a part of federal question jurisdiction”
• requiring “clear and unequivocal” notice of removability from the pleading or other paper to trigger the 30-day deadline for the removal by a defendant of a civil action
• affirming the district 27 court’s determination that the term “while working at” a military base “could serve as either 28 a ‘geographical modifier’ or a ‘durational modifier’” so removal timely occurred upon 1 discovery resolving the ambiguity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).