Sullivan v. First Affiliated Securities, Inc.

WIGGINS, Circuit Judge:

This is an interlocutory appeal from the district court’s order denying plaintiffs’ motion to remand plaintiffs’ state claims to state court. Plaintiffs filed two parallel securities actions, one in federal court under federal law and one in state court under state law. Defendants removed the state claims to federal court. In its order denying remand, the district court based its decision on its analysis of the “artful pleading” doctrine as articulated in Federated Department Stores, Inc. v. Moitie, 452 U.S. 394, 101 S.Ct. 2424, 69 L.Ed.2d 103 (1981), and Salveson v.…