Legal Opinion
Rutledge v. Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided January 12, 2000No. 98-15298PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WARDLAW, Circuit Judge:
Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather, & Gerald-son, a law firm, and Mitchell Whitehead, one of its attorneys (collectively, “Sey-farth”), appeal from the district court’s order awarding' attorneys’ fees and costs under 28 U.S.C. § 1447(c) to Anthony Rutledge and the AFL Hotel and Restaurant Workers’ Health and Welfare Fund (collectively, “Rutledge”). The court made the award on the strength of its prior decision remanding the underlying action to state court for lack of federal subject-matter jurisdiction, despite Seyfarth’s claim of preemption under the Employee Retirement…
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