Legal Opinion
Maine Municipal Ass'n v. Mayhew
District Court, D. Maine
Decided December 4, 2014No. 1:14-cv-00311-JAWPublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER ON MOTION TO REMAND
JOHN A. WOODCOCK, JR., Chief Judge.
The rules under which a federal court evaluates whether to retain a case removed from state court are occasionally obtuse. Here, the Plaintiffs filed a complaint in state court, the Defendants removed it to federal court, and the Plaintiffs want it returned to state court. Under rules peculiar to a federal court’s retention of jurisdiction in such a case, the Court agrees with the Plaintiffs that the case belongs in state, not federal, court and remands the case to state court.
In making this ruling, however, the Court cautions the…
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