Court Opinion

ID: 9476111
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 05:47:22.529526+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:45:07.708536
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SUR DENIAL OF REHEARING
GARTH, J.,
dissenting.
As a Senior Circuit Judge, I voted for panel rehearing for the reasons expressed in his panel dissent and for the additional reason that this court had ample opportunity to consider the merits of the mandamus petition and was not precluded from doing so in the time prior to the entry of the order of remand.
In my panel dissent I pointed out, among other things, that when the Petition for Writ of Mandamus was presented to us on April 9, 1987, no order of remand had yet been signed, filed, or docketed. The Petition for Rehearing now reveals that the actual order of remand was not filed until May 5, 1987. Thus, regardless of reason, no order of remand was entered between April 8, 1987 and May 5, 1987.
The majority’s opinion, which holds that this court is barred from reviewing a remand decision even when an order of remand has not been entered, improperly in my view, has expanded 28 U.S.C. § 1447(d) beyond all reason and meaning. This is so particularly in light of the fact that the time period between the district court’s opinion filed April 8, 1987 and the subsequent remand order (almost a month) gave ample time for this court to review the merits of the mandamus petition -without offending any proscriptions of § 1447(d).
I regard this issue as one of sufficient importance to warrant reconsideration by the Court.