State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. Valspar Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• finding that “notice of removability under § 1446(b) may be provided by answers to discovery requests”
• finding that “notice of removability under § 1446(b) may be provided by answers to discovery requests” and collecting authority for same
• finding that oral communication is typically insufficient to constitute “other paper” and trigger the thirty-day statutory removal period
• opining that the court must “strictly construe the removal statutes against removal and resolve any doubts in favor of remand.” (internal citations omitted)
• “[A] district court need not inquire into the subjective knowledge of the defendant when determining when the defendant first ascertained the action had become removable.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).