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Nature of Suit Code: 720
Nature of Suit: Labor Management Relations Act
Cause of Action: 29:185 Labor/Mgt. Relations (Contracts)

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

PAUL M. SANDERS,

Plaintiff,

 v.

ACCO ENGINEERED SYSTEMS, INC., a

corporation and DOES 1 through 20, et al.,

Defendants. /

No. C 05-04177 WHA

ORDER DENYING 

MOTION FOR REMAND

AND VACATING HEARING

In this labor dispute, plaintiff filed his complaint in Superior Court for Alameda County

on September 12, 2005. Defendant ACCO Engineered Systems, Inc. was served with the

complaint on September 16, 2005. It filed a notice of removal before this Court on October 14,

2005. Defendant also filed a notice of removal in state court on October 17, 2005. Plaintiff

now moves to remand the action on the basis that defendant’s removal was untimely. 

Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 1446(a), a defendant desiring to remove a civil action “shall file in

the district court of the United States for the district and division within which such action is

pending a notice of removal.” This must be done “within thirty days after the receipt by the

defendant, through service or otherwise, of a copy of the initial pleading setting forth the claim

for relief.” 28 U.S.C. 1446(b).

Plaintiff asserts that the date of service was September 16, 2005, which is consistent

with the date of service alleged in the notice of removal. Plaintiff cannot dispute that

October 14, 2005, the date defendant filed its notice of removal in this Court, was within thirty

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days of service. Moreover, Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 6(a) provides that when the last day

of a period of time falls on a Saturday, a Sunday, a legal holiday or when weather or other

conditions have made the Clerk’s Office inaccessible, “the period runs until the end of the next

day which is not one of the aforementioned days.” Because October 16 was a Sunday, it was

also within thirty days of service when defendant filed its notice of removal in state court on

Monday, October 17, 2005. Regardless, removal was timely. Accordingly, plaintiff’s motion

for remand is DENIED. The hearing on this motion, currently noticed for DECEMBER 15, 2005

AT 8:00 A.M., is VACATED. The stipulated request to continue the hearing to December 22,

2005 is RENDERED MOOT.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: November 15, 2005 

WILLIAM ALSUP

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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