Legal Opinion
WILLIMAS v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
District Court, M.D. Alabama
Decided February 15, 2008No. Civil Action 1:07cv1108-MHT (WO)PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.
In this slip-and-fall lawsuit, plaintiff Margaret Williams charges defendant Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. with negligence and wantonness. Williams removed this lawsuit from state court to federal court based on diversity-of-eitizenship jurisdiction. 28 U.S.C. §§ 1332, 1441. This lawsuit is now before the court on Williams’s motion to remand. Williams contends that removal is improper because Wal-Mart did not file a timely notice of removal pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1446(b). For the reasons that follow, the court concludes that Williams’s motion should…
2Cases cited6 opinions
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- Katie Lowery v. Honeywell International, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2007
- Miriam W. Williams v. Best Buy Co., Inc.Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2001
- American Motorists Insurance Co., and St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Co., Cross-Appellees v. American Employers' Insurance Company, Cross-AppellantCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1979
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