Legal Opinion
McMullen v. Synchrony Bank
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided September 8, 2015No. Civil Action No. 2014-1983Published
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION & ORDER
JOHN D. BATES, United States District Judge
After a period of Court-ordered jurisdictional discovery, plaintiff Valerie McMul-len’s renewed motion for remand hinges upon the answer to one question: were more than two-thirds of her proposed class citizens of the District of Columbia at the time this case became removable to federal court? If the answer is yes, then her action is a local controversy that must be litigated in the District of Columbia Superior Court, where it was originally filed. McMullen urges the Court to find this standard met and remand her case or,…
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