Medina v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

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• concluding that because service was through certified mail, “[t]he limitation period also must include three days pursuant to F.R.C.P. Rule 6(e
• noting that “the heavy weight of authority is to the effect that the time for removal .. . runs from receipt of the pleading by the defendant rather than the statutory agent”
• \A strict reading of [ § 1446(b) ] supports the position that the thirty-day period does not begin to run until the defendant actually receives a copy of the pleadings.\
• “[T]he defendant’s right to a federal forum should not depend upon the rapidity and accuracy with which the statutory agent informs its principal of the commencement of litigation against it.”

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