Gibson v. Clean Harbors Environmental Services, Inc.

WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.

The district court granted respondents’ motion to remand their putative class-action complaint to state court, holding that petitioner’s motion to remove the action to federal court was untimely filed. We grant petitioner’s petition for permission to appeal, reverse the district court’s judgment, and remand the case to the district court for further proceedings.

I. Background

Respondents Carla Gibson, Windel Lawson, Joyce Powell, Jeff Rogers, Kathy Wood, and Lillie Woods filed their class-action complaint in the Circuit Court of Union County, Arkansas, in January 2013,…