Ryder Services Corp. v. Savage

MEMORANDUM OPINION

ACKER, District Judge.

This case represents some highly creative thinking by plaintiff, Ryder Services Corporation (“Ryder”). Instead of waiting to be sued in state court by Preston Clyde Savage (“Savage”), its employee, under Alabama’s Workers’ Compensation Act, Ala.Code §§ 25-5-1 et seq., and thus be precluded by 28 U.S.C. § 1445(c) from removing the case to this court, Ryder has filed in this court a request for a declaration of non-liability on Savage’s prospective claim for workers’ compensation for an alleged work related injury. Ryder attempts to invoke this court’s…