United States Sixth Circuit

Neither 28 U.S.C. section 1441(a) nor section 1441(c) provides third-party defendants with the right to remove a case to federal court, and a district court may not remand to state court a case that was never removed from state court.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/21/2002
• Published 08/21/2002

Judges

• Before: MERRITT, BOGGS, and MOORE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Winston S. Evans (argued and briefed), William Burgin Hawkins, III (briefed), Evans, Jones & Reynolds, Nashville, TN, for Third Party-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles W. Holt, Jr. (Argued), George B. Boston (briefed), Boston, Holt & Sockwell, Lawrenceburg, TN, for Defendants-Appellees.