United States Fifth Circuit

In a suit against the maker of Rezulin that was removed to federal court, the removal statute's (28 U.S.C. - 1446(b)) one-year limit on removal is subject to equitable exception, and the district court's application of such an exception was appropriate.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/24/2003
• Published 04/24/2003

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.