Shipbuilder Asks 5th Circuit For En Banc Review Of Remand Standard

(April 19, 2019, 2:30 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — The en banc Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals should re-evaluate precedent analyzing 2011 amendments permitting removal of claims “relating to” conduct occurring at the direction of a federal officer and bring it in line with other courts, an asbestos-defendant shipbuilder told the court on March 27 (James A. Latiolais v. Huntington Ingalls Inc., et al., No. 18-30652, 5th Cir.)....

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