Grover Lee Lovern v. General Motors Corporation

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• holding that this court need only look to four corners of complaint to assess indicia of removability
• stating that the defendant will have “30 days from the revelation of grounds for removal”
• implying that both a police report and interrogatory responses produced by 7 the plaintiff were “other papers” that triggered the beginning of the removal period
• explaining that the 30-day period begins to run “only where an initial pleading reveals a ground for removal”
• holding that where the plaintiff's citizenship was not included in the initial pleading, it did not reveal grounds for removal such that the 30-day removal period began only when the defendant received an interrogatory revealing that there was complete diversity between the parties
• explaining that the grounds for removal must “be apparent within the four corners of the initial pleading or subsequent paper” to begin the thirty-day clock for removal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).