· 11/4/2002
Freiberg v. Swinerton & Walberg Property Services, Inc.
Citations
- 245 F. Supp. 2d 1144
- 2002 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 23877
- 2002 WL 31760862
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- \What they must establish for purpose of the § 1442(a)(1) [analysis] is that they government authority under which they worked required them to act as they did.\
- where defendants failed to “establish the DOE’s direction and control of their activities directly interfered with their ability to fulfill them state law obligation to warn employees of safety hazards” of exposure to asbestos, motion to remand allowed
- “The official must have direct and detailed control over the defendant.”
- “Given the purpose of § 1442 and its basis in a mistrust of states and state courts to protect federal interests, I agree it should be read expansively only when the immunity of individual federal officials, and not government contractors, is at issue.”
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Judges: Kane
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