Poche v. Texas Air Corps, Inc.

JENNIFER W. ELROD, Circuit Judge:

Defendant-Appellant Texas Air Corps, Inc. (“TAC”) appeals the district court’s order remanding this case to state court. Because our precedent compels the conclusion that the district court was without authority to remand Plaintiff-Appellee Michele Poche’s Fair Labor Standards Act claim, we reverse and remand.

I. Facts and Proceedings

TAC hired Michele Poche as an ambulance medic and dispatcher in June 2006. According to Poche’s state court petition, TAC told her that she would work between fifty and sixty hours per week, and that she would be assigned a company…