Ogletree v. Barnes

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the rule of unanimity is satisfied where there is “some timely filed written indication from each defendant”
• removal perfected when all defendants join in or otherwise consent to the removal petition
• even informal letter to court can serve as notice of joinder in removal notice
• even informal letter to court can serve as notice of joinder in removal notice
• consent to join a notice of removal must be express, official, and unambiguous
• “While a few courts have allowed non-signing defendants to submit affidavits of consent after the thirty-day period had expired, it is well-settled in this district that ‘[t]he thirty-day limitation is mandatory and the court is without authority to expand it.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).