United States Fifth Circuit

Where plaintiff has attempted to manipulate the statutory rules for determining federal removal jurisdiction, preventing defendant from exercising its rights, the one-year limitation on removal under 28 U.S.C. section 1446(b) is subject to extension by equitable exception.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/08/2003
• Published 04/08/2003

Judges

• REAVLEY, Circuit Judge:, Before REAVLEY, JOLLY and JONES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Sharon S. McCally (argued), Storey, Moore & McCally, Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jack E. Urquhart, Jeffery Taylor Nobles (argued), Beirne, Maynard & Parsons, Houston, TX, David Wesley Klingsberg, Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler, New York City, Sawnie A. McEntire, Beirne, Maynard & Parsons, Dallas, TX, for Defendants-Appellees.