Finch v. University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

How courts have described this case

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• finding that, “pursuant to Virginia law, by nonsuiting the first lawsuit and refiling, plaintiff ha[d] begun a new proceeding on that same cause action”
• observing that the federal rules may be manipulated to prevent removal of a diversity case to federal court by non-suiting the only nondiverse defendant more than one year after the complaint is filed
• denying motion to remand where plaintiff voluntarily dismissed state-court action and then re-filed action in state court, which defendant then removed
• “by nonsuiting the first lawsuit and refiling, plaintiff has begun a new proceeding” that starts the thirty-day period

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).