Wright v. Sterling Investors Life Insurance

MEMORANDUM OPINION

ACKER, District Judge.

Defendants, Sterling Investors Life Insurance Company and Robey-Barber Insurance Services Corporation, removed the above-entitled cause from the Circuit Court of Dekalb County on August 31, 1990, purporting to invoke the jurisdiction of this court on two separate bases: (1) alleged diversity of citizenship and the requisite jurisdictional amount pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a); and (2) alleged existence of original jurisdiction in this court pursuant to 29 U.S.C. § 1144(a). Defendants have never invoked 28 U.S.C. § 1331.

On September 13, 1990,…