Judge: Removal Untimely, Lack Of Evidence Against Nondiverse Defendant Obvious

Mealey's (July 15, 2022, 1:22 PM EDT) -- MILWAUKEE — A railroad should have known about the paucity of evidence against the lone nondiverse defendant when that company moved for summary judgment in March, rendering the railroad’s eventual May removal untimely, a federal judge in Wisconsin said July 13 in granting a motion to remand....