Freiberg v. Swinerton & Walberg Property Services, Inc.

ORDER REMANDING CASES TO STATE COURT

KANE, District Judge.

Defendant contractors and former manufacturers and distributors of asbestos-containing products invoke 28 U.S.C. § 1442(a)(1) to remove five state law personal injury/asbestosis actions from state to federal court. Defendants join in the Removal Notice of Co-Defendant Swiner-ton Walberg Property Services, Corp. (“Swinerton”), one of the contractors whose construction activities at the U.S. government’s Rocky Flats nuclear weapons production facility form the basis of Plaintiffs’ exposure claims. Swinerton asserts it was “acting under” a…