Skidmore v. Beech Aircraft Corp.

POLOZOLA, District Judge.

This matter is before the court on the motion of the plaintiff to remand this suit to the Nineteenth Judicial District .Court for the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana. Plaintiff contends that defendant’s petition for removal was not timely filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1446(b), or in the alternative that removal was improper for lack of complete diversity, 28 U.S.C. § 1332. Defendant responds that removal is timely under an alleged fraudulent joinder exception to § 1446(b).

Plaintiff, a Louisiana citizen, filed this suit in the Nineteenth Judicial…