Legal Opinion
Atchison v. Woodmen of the World Insurance Society
District Court, S.D. Alabama
Decided November 7, 1997No. CIV. A. 96-1098-CB-CPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION and ORDER
BUTLER, Chief Judge.
This matter is before the Court on plaintiffs’ motion to remand this action to state court (Doc. 34) to which defendant Woodmen of the World Insurance Society and all but one of the named individual defendants 1 have filed separate responses (Docs. 43 & 5 1). After due consideration of all issues raised, the Court finds that the motion to remand is due to be granted.
1. Procedural Background
In this action, which was originally filed in the Circuit Court of Clarke County, Alabama, several individual plaintiffs seek to represent themselves and a class “of all…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- United Mine Workers of America v. GibbsSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Metropolitan Life Insurance v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
- Snyder v. HarrisSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Jacqueline Burns v. Windsor Insurance Co.Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1994
- Tapscott v. MS Dealer Service Corp.Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1996
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3Cited by4 opinions
- Triggs v. John Crump Toyota, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1998
- Oxford v. Williams Companies, Inc.District Court, E.D. Texas · 2001
- Triggs v. John Crump Toyota, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1998
- Jones v. Woodmen Accident & Life Co.District Court, N.D. Ohio · 2000