Ham v. Merritt

How courts have described this case

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• finding the phrase “initial pleading” to be “unambiguous” because ‘initial’ by definition means ‘first...’ There cannot be multiple ‘first’ pleadings against a DMAIN □□□ defendant in a single civil action’
• “Intervenors may file notices of removal if they are properly aligned as defendants.” (quoting 14C CHARLES A. WRIGHT & ARTHUR R. MILLER, FEDERAL Practice and Procedure § 3730 (4th online ed. 2014))
• “Because the filing of an amended complaint is an act or event occurring between commencement and judgment, it is part of a single, ongoing civil action and cannot commence a new ‘civil action’ under Section 1446(b)(1).”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).