Court Opinion

ID: 9870776
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-26 20:08:19.685628+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:45:44.068520
License: Public Domain

REINHARDT, Circuit Judge,
dissenting:
Cox Communications represented to the court in its first removal petition that the ease was removable under a preponderance of the evidence standard. The court remanded the case to state court, however, because Cox had not proven removability to a legal certainty, which it held to be the applicable standard. Thus, when the law changed and the preponderance of the evidence standard was held to govern remov-ability disputes, Cox was put on notice that the case was newly removable. The change in the law therefore triggered a 30-day removal period under 28 U.S.C. § 1446(b)(3). I would hold that the second removal was untimely and grant Taylor’s petition for remand.