Legal Opinion
Steven Bastien v. At&t Wireless Services, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 6, 2000No. 18-3440PublishedCited by 108 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
Steven Bastien sued AT&T Wireless Services, Inc. in an Illinois court over his allegations that the company misled him about his cellular telephone service. Congress has decreed that suits related to rates and service of telephone companies be handled in federal court, and despite Bastien’s best efforts at crafting a state-law complaint, AT&T Wireless exercised its right to have Bastien’s case removed to federal court. Bastien challenged the removal order and the jurisdiction of the federal district court to hear what he contended were state law matters. Because we read…
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