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· 8/1/2008

Bullard v. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Co.

Citations

  • 535 F.3d 759
  • 2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 16426
  • 2008 WL 2941359

How courts have described this case

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

  • Section 1446(b) allows removal within 30 days of any event that brings a previously non-removable suit within federal jurisdiction
  • “A complaint identifying 144 plaintiffs . . . implicitly proposes one trial. . . .”
  • “It does not matter whether a trial covering 100 or more plaintiffs actually ensues; the statutory question is whether one has been proposed.”
  • “A complaint identifying 144 plaintiffs . . . implicitly proposes one trial. . . .”
  • “It does not matter whether a trial covering 100 or more plaintiffs actually ensues; the statutory question is whether one has been proposed.”
  • plaintiffs filed a single complaint containing more than 100 plaintiffs; CAFA jurisdiction present

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Easterbrook, Rovner, Evans

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