Smith v. Union National Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the fact defendants shared counsel did not “create an implied joinder or consent” to the removal
• “Nor does the joint representation of the removing and non-removing defendants by a single attorney create an implied joinder or consent ....”
• “Nor does the joint representation of the removing and non-removing defendants by a single attorney create an implied joinder - 5 - or consent . . . .”
• “There is nothing unfair about requiring each defendant to either sign the notice of removal, file its own notice of removal, or file a written consent or written joinder to the original notice of removal.”
• “The error here is substantive, not merely mechanical.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).