· 7/8/1999
American Home Assurance Co. v. RJR Nabisco Holdings Corp.
Citations
- 70 F. Supp. 2d 296
- 1999 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 10407
- 1999 WL 493080
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- “a non-party—even one that . . . claims to be a real party in interest—has no authority to notice removal . . . .”
- nonparty that claimed to be the real party in interest could not remove case
- “Independently, . . . a non-party . . . has no authority to notice removal under the statutes here utilized, 28 U.S.C. § 1441 and § 1446(a), which speak only of removal ‘by the defendant or defendants.’” (citing cases)
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Judges: Rakoff
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