Legal Opinion
Crump v. Wal-Mart Group Health Plan
District Court, W.D. Kentucky
Decided April 26, 1996No. Civil Action C95-711-L(H)PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
HEYBURN, District Judge.
The Court now considers Plaintiffs Motion to Remand to state court. The case raises unusual questions about the proper time for removal when a plaintiffs cross-claim interjects federal issues into a state case and when, in mid-litigation, the state court realigns parties to create diversity of citizenship. After due reflection, the Court concludes that it may retain this case pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 1441(a) and (b) under its diversity and federal question jurisdictions.
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This case comes to the Court with a complex procedural history. On September 29,…
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