Legal Opinion

Stephen H. Peters v. Union Pacific Railroad Company

Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Decided April 1, 1996No. 95-1599PublishedCited by 110 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MAGILL, Circuit Judge.

Stephen H. Peters brought a conversion action in Missouri state court against Union Pacific Railroad for its refusal to return his locomotive engineer certificate. Union Pacific Railroad successfully motioned to remove the action to federal court and to dismiss.

Peters now appeals the district court’s 1 denial of remand to state court and subsequent dismissal of his state conversion action. He argues that his motion for remand was proper because his conversion claim relied solely on Arkansas law and therefore fell outside the jurisdiction of the federal courts. He also…

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