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LAWRENCE v. CHANCERY COURT OF TENNESSEE

No. 98-6019.

188 F.3d 687 (1999)

Joyce R. LAWRENCE and Caroline Wilson, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CHANCERY COURT OF TENNESSEE; Robert E. Corlew, III, Chancellor; Carol McCoy, Chancellor; John A.W. Bratcher, Clerk and Master; Chancery Court of the Sixteenth Judicial District; and Chancery Court of the Twentieth Judicial District, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided August 30, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard J. Braun (briefed), Richard J. Braun & Associates, Nashville, TN, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Heather C. Ross (briefed), Office of Attorney General, Civil Rights & Claims Div., Nashville, TN, for Defendants-Appellees Chancery Court of Tennessee, Robert E. Corlew, III, Chancellor and Carol McCoy, Chancellor.

David Randall Mantooth (briefed), Leitner, Williams, Dooley & Napolitan, PLLC, Nashville, TN, for Defendant-Appellee John A.W. Bratcher.

Paul D. Krivacka (briefed), Metropolitan Legal Department, Nashville, TN, for Defendant-Appellee Claudia Bonnyman.

Before: SILER and GILMAN, Circuit Judges; GRAHAM, District Judge.

OPINION

GILMAN, Circuit Judge.

At issue in this case is whether 28 U.S.C. § 1446(d), which instructs state courts to "proceed no further" once a case is removed to federal court, nonetheless permits a state to subsequently bill plaintiffs for accrued court costs pursuant to cost bonds they signed when their lawsuits were originally filed in the state court. The plaintiffs, against whom the state of Tennessee...

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