Chagnon v. Japan Air Lines

ORDER REMANDING CASE TO STATE COURT

RAFEEDIE, District Judge.

Plaintiff Jose Sulaiman Chagnon filed this action in state court on November 21, 1984 seeking damages for injuries he sustained as an airplane passenger arising out of an aborted takeoff of a Japan Air Lines (“JAL”) flight from Bangkok, Thailand to Tokyo, Japan on November 30, 1983. Service of the summons and complaint was made on JAL on October 31, 1986. Defendant then filed a petition for removal on November 21, 1986 pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1441(b) asserting that this Court had original jurisdiction over plaintiff’s claim in that…