Legal Opinion
Poore v. American-Amicable Life Insurance Co. of Texas
District Court, S.D. Georgia
Decided December 20, 2000No. CV 498-259PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
NANGLE, District Judge.
On September 6, 2000, this Court ordered the parties in this case to brief the issue of whether this Court had subject matter jurisdiction at the time of removal. Order dated September 6, 2000. (Doc. 28). After carefully reviewing the parties responses (Does. 29, 31, 36, 37, and 38), all relevant case law and scholarship on this issue, this Court concludes that it had subject matter jurisdiction at the time of removal. Therefore, this Court’s remand order dated July 21, 1999 (Doc. 24) is rescinded and this matter shall proceed in this Court.
I. BACKGROUND
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