Hassan Chahadeh, M.D. v. Jacinto Medical Group, P.A. and Paradise Marketing and Consulting, L. P.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that thirty-day removal clock “began in this case only when State Farm actually received the [plaintiff’s] complaint” from its statutorily designated agent
• stating that “an agent designated by the state legislature to receive service fundamentally differs from a defendant’s agent-in-fact, because the defendant has no meaningful say in or control over the former”
• applying Murphy Brothers and explaining that a defendant cannot be expected to engage in litigation until the defendant is formally brought under the court’s authority
• 30-day 25 removal clock begins when foreign insurer received notice from statutorily designated 26 agent
• “Thirty days from February 17 13, 2015, was Sunday March,15, 2015, so the notice of removal would have been timely filed on 18 Monday, March 16, 2015.”
• “We join the Fourth Circuit and hold that thirty-day removal clock under 28 U.S.C. § 1446(b)(1) does not begin upon service on and receipt by a statutorily designated agent….”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).