United States Seventh Circuit

Appeal of a district court decision to remand a shareholder derivative action to state court is dismissed for lack of jurisdiction where failure to comply with the forum defendant rule is a defect in the removal that bars appellate review by the 7th Circuit.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/14/2006
• Decided 07/03/2007
• Published 07/03/2007

Judges

• RIPPLE, Circuit Judge., Before BAUER, RIPPLE and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Marc M. Umeda (argued), Robbins, Umeda & Fink, San Diego, CA, Patrick Sherlock, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Patrick T. Stanton, Schwartz, Cooper, Greenberger & Krauss, Chicago, IL, Mitchell G. Blair (argued), Calfree, Halter & Griswold, Cleveland, OH, for Defendant-Appellant.