State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. Dunn-Edwards Corp.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• Rejecting the notion that an attorney “may offer consent for anyone beyond her own client(s).” Logic dictates that conversely an attorney may speak for all of her clients in the same case.
• “The unanimity rule requires all served defendants to assure the court—generally by joining in the removal itself, filing their notice of removal, or filing a notice of consent—that they consent to removal.”
• “[T]he unanimity rule requires all served defendants to assure the court—generally by joining in the removal itself, filing their own notice of removal, or filing a notice of consent—that they consent to removal.”
• “While no one doubts the veracity of the attorneys appearing in federal court, these courts rightly avoid the morass of ambiguities, disparate memories, and misapprehensions that often accompany attorneys’ verbal agreements with one another.”
• “A valid removal requires the consent of all served defendants.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).