Legal Opinion
Paradise Motors, Inc. v. Murphy
District Court, Virgin Islands
Decided November 29, 1994No. Civ. 1994-82PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MOORE, Chief Judge:
Petitioner Paradise Motors, Inc.’s (“Paradise Motors”) motion for remand requires us to once again navigate the precarious shoals that emerge at the confluence of Virgin Islands and federal law. At issue here is whether a federal officer properly removed a case involving the customs laws in the Virgin Islands. Although we conclude that this case was improvidently removed under 28 U.S.C. § 1442(a) (1976), we find that the presence of a federal question in Paradise Motors’ petition allows us to retain jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1441(b) (1976). Accordingly,…
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