189 F. Supp. 2d 347 - Gray v. Rite Aid Corp.’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “Lovern is not to be read as granting a wholly risk-free choice to a defendant in its determination of whether to remove a case to federal court; the ground for removal need not appear beyond a reasonable doubt in a court order before the right to effect a removal may be unmistakably apparent. To the contrary, as Lovern noted, and as the many cases cited in [Link Telecomms., Inc. v. Sapperstein, 119 F.Supp.2d 536, 542 (D.Md.2000) ], have found, the Fourth Circuit “will allow the [district] court to rely on the face of the initial pleading and on the documents exchanged in the case by the parties to determine when the defendant had notice of the grounds for removal, requiring that those grounds be apparent within the four comers of the initial pleading or subsequent paper.” Lovern, 121 F.3d at 162 (emphasis added).”

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