Legal Opinion
Mesa v. California
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 21, 1989No. 87-1206PublishedCited by 500 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice O’Connor
We decide today whether United States Postal Service employees may, pursuant to 28 U. S. C. § 1442(a)(1), remove to Federal District Court state criminal prosecutions brought against them for traffic violations committed while on duty.
I
In the summer of 1985 petitioners Kathryn Mesa and Shabbir Ebrahim were employed as mailtruck drivers by the United States Postal Service in Santa Clara County, California. In unrelated incidents, the State of California issued criminal complaints against petitioners, charging Mesa with misdemeanor-manslaughter and driving outside a laned roadway after her…
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