United States Ninth Circuit

Employment discrimination proceedings before the Oregon Bureau of Labor & Industries (BOLI) were improperly removed to district court, because 28 U.S.C. section 1441(a) authorizes removal only from a "state court."

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/11/2002
• Decided 04/26/2002
• Published 04/26/2002

Judges

• Before BRUNETTI, LEAVY, and T.G. NELSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Richard Wasserman, Assistant Attorney General, Salem, OR, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert Joga, Denver, CO, and David P.R. Symes, Perkins Coie LLP, Portland, OR, for the defendant-appellee.