Court Opinion

ID: 9433789
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:41:18.743865+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:23:44.010411
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*357Chief Justice Rehnquist,
-with whom Justice Scalia and Justice Thomas join, dissenting.
Respondent faxed petitioner a copy of the file-stamped complaint in its commenced state-court action, and I believe that the receipt of this facsimile triggered the 30-day removal period under the plain language of 28 U. S. C. § 1446(b). The Court does little to explain why the plain language of the statute should not control, opting instead to superimpose a judicially created service of process requirement onto § 1446(b). In so doing, it departs from this Court’s practice of strictly construing removal and similar jurisdictional statutes. See Shamrock Oil & Gas Corp. v. Sheets, 313 U. S. 100, 108-109 (1941). Because I believe the Eleventh Circuit’s analysis of the issue presented in this case was cogent and correct, see 125 F. 3d 1396, 1397-1398 (1997), I would affirm the dismissal of petitioner’s removal petition for the reasons stated by that court.