Hill v. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama

MEMORANDUM OPINION

ACKER, District Judge.

On July 24, 2000, this court, reluctantly and with expressed ambivalence, denied the motion of plaintiff, Ryan Hill (“Mr. Hill”), to remand the above-entitled case to the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, Alabama, from whence it had been removed by defendant, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama (“Blue Cross”). This court simultaneously certified the question of its jurisdiction for interlocutory review pursu ant to 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b). The Eleventh Circuit declined to accept the proffered appeal, whereupon Mr. Hill asked this court to take another look…