Legal Opinion
O'CONNOR v. Pierson
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided June 3, 2009No. Docket 07-1758-cvPublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SACK, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiff-appellant Thomas O’Connor pursued parallel lawsuits against the defendants in federal and state court.
What became the federal lawsuit was first filed in the Superior Court for the State of Connecticut. Based on O’Con-nor’s assertion of, inter alia, causes of action under federal law, the action was removed by the defendants to the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. When the case stalled, the plaintiff filed a second complaint in Superi- or Court in which he limited himself to the assertion of state law claims only. This lawsuit went to…
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