274 F. Supp. 2d 783 - Ratliff v. Workman’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1446 · 28 U.S.C. § 1447 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Murphy Brothers, Inc. v. Michetti Pipe Stringing, Inc. · Getty Oil Corporation, Succeeded by and a Division of Texaco, Inc. v. Insurance Company of North America · Brown v. Demco, Inc. · McKinney v. Board of Trustees of Mayland Community College · Brierly v. Alusuisse Flexible Packaging, Inc.
Most-quoted passages
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“that each defendant has thirty days to remove starting from the time service of process is effected on that defendant. This requires that any previously-served defendant be allowed to consent to join in removal even after the expiration of their own thirty-day time limitation. Once the thirty-day time period for the first-served defendants has expired, however, the first-served defendants are no longer allowed to initiate a petition for removal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“did not require the court to resolve ... whether an individual defendant may remove a case within thirty days of service even when a previously served defendant has failed to remove in a timely manner” and explaining that footnote three”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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