Charlie Gaitor v. Peninsular & Occidental Steamship Company, Blue Steamship Company, and Shaw Brothers Shipping Company

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Romero “made clear that except in diversity cases, maritime litigation brought in state courts could not be removed to the federal courts.”
• explaining that an initially non-removable case “cannot be converted into a removable one by evidence of the defendant”
• observing that “such conversion can only be accomplished by the voluntary amendment of his pleadings by the plaintiff”
• ordering remand to state court of removed maritime action for lack of requisite jurisdictional amount
• explaining that “other paper” requires a voluntary act of the plaintiff, and that an initially non-removable case “cannot be converted into a removable one by evidence of the defendant or by an order of the court”
• explaining that “other paper” requires a voluntary act of the plaintiff, and that an initially non-removable case “cannot be converted into a removable one by evidence of the defendant or by an order of the court”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).