American Policyholders Insurance Company v. Nyacol Products, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the parties “cannot confer subject matter jurisdiction by agreement”
• holding § 1442 is designed to allow federal officers to remove actions that otherwise would be unremovable
• explaining that \a party may not raise new and additional matters for the first time in a petition for rehearing\
• explaining that an official capacity suit is, in all respects other than in name, a suit against the government entity that the officer represents
• vacating dismissal and ordering the district court to “return the improvidently removed action to the court from whence it emanated”
• considering whether removal was proper, despite parties’ agreement that the federal courts had subject matter jurisdiction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).