Tammy Bell v. Jon Thornburg

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• holding that a party “must 16 See supra, n.13. only allege ‘a causal connection between what [it] has done under asserted official authority and the state action’” to assert a colorable federal defense (quoting Mesa v. California, 489 U.S. 121, 129 (1989))
• noting “the U.S. Trustee is an officer of the Department of Justice, not of the court.”
• deeming an asserted federal defense colorable simply because it satisfied the “causal connection” requirement of the federal officer removal test

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