Legal Opinion
Motion Control Corporation v. Sick, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided February 4, 2004No. 03-2379PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LAY, Circuit Judge.
Motion Control Corporation (“MCC”) appeals the district court’s decision allowing removal of MCC’s Minnesota state law claim. The district court based its removal decision on the grounds that the claim was “factually interdependent” with, and therefore “ancillary” to, a case already pending before the federal district court. We hold that 28 U.S.C. § 1441 does not allow removal under these circumstances, and therefore vacate the district court’s decision with directions to the district court to remand the case to the Minnesota state court.
I. BACKGROUND
MCC, a Michigan…
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