Legal Opinion
Gilmore v. Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems, Inc.
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided August 10, 2001No. 01 C 2900PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
HART, District Judge.
Named plaintiff Bruce Gilmore filed this putative class action in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois. Defendant Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems, Inc. 1 d/b/a as Cellular One of Illinois removed the case to federal court contending that plaintiffs claims were completely preempted by federal law and therefore necessarily stated a basis for federal jurisdiction. Plaintiff has moved to remand the case to state court and defendant has moved to dismiss plaintiffs cause of action.
According to the allegations of the complaint, plaintiff is a…
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