Billy Max Brown v. Demco, Inc. v. Employers Casualty Co., Intervenor-Appellant

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• holding that removal was not warranted where later-served defendants were added to a four-year old state court action because no notice of removal was filed within thirty days of service on the first-served defendant
• holding that a defendant waives its right to remove by invoking state-court processes
• holding that removal was not warranted where later-served defendants were added to a four-year old state court action because no notice of removal was filed within thirty days of service on the first-served defendant
• holding defendants waived by filing answers, amended answers, various mo tion, third-party demands, cross claims, and by participating in extensive discovery, all after case became removable
• dispelling criticism in Wright & Miller; second defendant’s position is not any worse than if the first defendant refused to consent
• finding waiver of right to removal where new defendant attempted removal when added to suit five years after suit had been pending and co-defendants had chosen to litigate for years in state court

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).