Edward Bujanowski v. Lonnie Kocontes

This appeal arises out of Lonnie Ko-contes’s removal of a Florida state action to federal court based on diversity jurisdiction and the subsequent remand to state court. Specifically, this appeal concerns the district court’s orders issued under 28 U.S.C. § 1447(c) that: (1) adopted a magistrate judge’s report and recommendation finding Kocontes liable for Edward Buja-nowski’s attorneys’ fees and costs associated with the removal proceeding because Kocontes did not have an objectively reasonable basis for the removal; and (2) adopted in part another report and recommendation by the same…