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Nature of Suit Code: 365
Nature of Suit: Personal Injury - Product Liability
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition for Removal- Product Liability

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA

Martin Sanchez and Maria Sanchez, 

husband and wife, 

Plaintiffs, 

v.

Yokohama Tire Corporation, a foreign 

corporation; et. al.,

Defendants. 

Evangelina Ocejo Saldana, the surviving 

wife of Santiago Saldana on her own 

behalf and on behalf of Daisy Saldana and

James Andrew Saldana, the surviving 

children of Santiago Saldana, 

Plaintiffs,

v. 

Yokohama Tire Corporation, a California

corporation; et. al., 

Defendants.

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No. CV 04-238 TUC FRZ (GEE)

 

 ORDER

This Court issued its Order, filed June 7, 2005, accepting and adopting the Report and

Recommendation of Magistrate Judge Glenda E. Edmonds, and thereby granted the Plaintiffs'

motion to remand this action back to state court. Judgment was entered accordingly.

On June 21, 2005, Plaintiffs Sanchez filed a Motion for Attorney's fees, to which

Defendant Yokohama Tire Corporation filed a response in opposition.

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This Court referred Plaintiffs' Sanchez Motion for Attorney's Fees to Magistrate Judge

Edmonds for Report and Recommendation in accordance with General Order 98-62 and the

relevant provisions of 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1) and LRCiv 72.1 and LRCiv 72.2 of the Rules of

Practice of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona, Local Rules of Civil

Procedure. 

Magistrate Judge Edmonds issued her Report and Recommendation, filed December 29,

2005, which includes a thorough legal analysis based on the factual and procedural background

of this action. Judge Edmonds recommends, based on her finding that Defendant Yokohama

had an objectively reasonable basis for seeking removal based on the artful pleading doctrine,

that the Court enter an order denying Plaintiffs' request for attorney's fees. 

No objections have been filed.

Based upon this Court's review of the Report and Recommendation and the record herein,

and further based on there being no objection,

IT IS ORDERED that the Report and Recommendation [Doc. # 79] of Magistrate Judge

Edmonds is hereby ACCEPTED and ADOPTED as the findings of fact and conclusions of law

by this Court;

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Plaintiffs' Sanchez Motion for Attorneys' Fees [Doc.

# 66], inclusive of the supplement filed thereto [Doc. # 67], is DENIED. 

DATED this 22nd day of March, 2006.

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