Legal Opinion
Insight Holding Group, LLC v. Sitnasuak Native Corp.
District Court, E.D. Virginia
Decided February 12, 2010No. Case 1:09cv1330PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
T.S. ELLIS, III, District Judge.
The threshold issue in this removed diversity breach of contract case is the question, unresolved in this circuit, whether defendants may validly consent to removal where, as here, those defendants are subject to forum selection clauses requiring that disputes be adjudicated in state court. Put differently, the question is whether removal, which requires the consent of all defendants, is valid where some consenting defendants were contractually bound to litigate the dispute in state court.
The matter has been fully briefed and argued, and is…
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