Departamento De Asuntos Del Consumidor v. Oriental Federal Savings

OPINION AND ORDER

LAFFITTE, District Judge.

Defendant, a federally chartered savings and loan association, removed this action from plaintiff, the Departamento de Asuntos del Consumidor (“DACO”), seeking a declaration that federal law pre-empts Commonwealth administrative action in this area. Defendant also seeks an injunction prohibiting DACO from such action. DACO had sought to regulate defendant’s retail installment sales and contracts. We find that the case was improvidently removed and thus remand it to DACO. Furthermore, we find that even had defendant brought it as an original claim iñ…