Legal Opinion
Warner v. Atkinson Freight Lines Corp.
District Court, D. Maine
Decided November 1, 2004No. 1:04-cv-00123PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER ON PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION TO REMAND AND DEFENDANT’S MOTION TO DISMISS
SINGAL, Chief Judge.
Before the Court is Plaintiffs’ Motion to Remand (Docket # 7) for lack of federal subject matter jurisdiction and Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss (Docket # 5) for failure to state a claim for which relief can be granted. These motions require the Court to consider first whether Plaintiffs’ state law claims against their former employer for failure to pay wages, conversion, breach of fiduciary duty, and fraud must be recharacterized as stating a federal question under either section 301 of the Labor…
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