5th Circuit Considers Whether Removal Clock Starts At Deposition, Or Transcript

(December 5, 2017, 10:53 AM EST) -- BATON ROUGE, La. — A Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel is set to decide whether deposition testimony counts as “other paper” and triggers the time for removing an action or whether the clock starts only after defendants receive the transcript, after the court held oral arguments Nov. 8 in an asbestos case (Curtis D. Morgan v. Dow Chemical Co., et al., No. 17-30523, 5th Cir.)....