Wenger v. Western Reserve Life Assur. Co. of Ohio

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER OF REMAND

NEESE, Senior District Judge,

sitting by designation and assignment.

The defendant filed with the clerk of this Court a petition seeking to remove this action to this Court from the state court in which it was commenced. 28 U.S.C. § 1446(a). This Court must consider sua sponte whether its removal jurisdiction was properly invoked, see Stokes v. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Feener & Smith, 523 F.2d 433, 437 (6th Cir.1975); for, without a finding that such jurisdiction exists, this Court has no power to proceed, Memphis Am. Fed. of Tchrs., L. 2032 v. Bd. of Ed.,…