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Nature of Suit Code: 190
Nature of Suit: Other Contract Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition for Removal- Breach of Contract

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS 

JONESBORO DIVISION 

DANNY L. WEAVER and 

STACEY E. WEAVER PLAINTIFF 

v. No. 3:15-cv-83-DPM 

EVERHOME MORTGAGE COMPANY1 and 

EVER BANK 

ORDER 

DEFENDANT 

1. TheW eavers' motion to remand is denied. The only fighting issue is 

timeliness. The Court agrees with the reasoning and authorities in Ever bank's 

brief, NQ 17. While written settlement offers are useful in determining 

removal timeliness, the written offer at issue here occurred during the 

parties's adversary proceeding before the initial state complaint was filed and 

was simply not conclusive enough of the amount in controversy to start 

Everbank' s removal clock in this case. Knudson v. Systems Painters, Inc., 634 

F.3d 968, 974 (8th Cir. 2011); Wang v. Pacific Cycle, Inc., 530 F. Supp. 2d 1048, 

1051-52 (S.D. Iowa2008). Thepost-complaintemailand oral communications 

between the parties' lawyers -made outside of court and unsworn- also fall 

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The Court directs the Clerk to correct the docket: Everhome 

Mortgage Company merged with Everbank and is no longer a separate 

entity. NQ 5 at n.l. 

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short of being clear and unequivocal notices of removability. See State Farm 

Fire & Casualty Co. v. Valspar Corp., 824 F. Supp. 2d 923, 931 (D. S.D. 2010) 

(emails); Bajaba, LLC v. General Steel Domestic Sales, LLC, 2014 WL 5363905, at 

*2 (W.D. Ark. 21 October 2014) (oral statements). The only firm notice came 

through the Weavers' discovery responses. 

2. Ever bank's motion to quash the requests for admissions is granted. 

The problem is the Weavers' complaint. It is not a short and plain statement 

of claims; it tries to tell the whole story of the case. FED. R. CIV. P. 8(a). The 

Court acknowledges the Weavers' burden under Twombly and Igbal to plead 

facts, rather than conclusions, but this is just too much. The Court orders the 

Weavers to file an amended complaint- a trimmed down, more general, less 

particularized short and plain statement. The Court directs Everbank to 

respond in kind: admitting everything that it can, based on its now knowing 

much about the case. We need to move to the merits now. 

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Motion to remand, NQ 14, denied. Motion to quash, NQ 5, granted. 

Amended complaint due by 15 May 2015. 

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So Ordered. 

v D.P. Marshall Jr. 

United States District Judge 

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