COOK v. GEORGETOWN STEEL CORP.

Nos. 84-1873, 84-1888, 84-1897, 84-1898 and 84-1932.

770 F.2d 1272 (1985)

James Donald COOK; Arthur J. Keith; Gerald Dale Lambert; Ben Coakley; Julian Gamble; Robert Davis; Marshall Ray Justice; Leroy Davis; Qulex Dickerson, Plaintiffs, and James Cooper, Appellant, v. GEORGETOWN STEEL CORPORATION, Appellee. James Donald COOK; James Cooper, Plaintiffs, and Arthur J. Keith; Gerald Dale Lambert; Ben Coakley; Julian Gamble; Robert Davis; Marshall Ray Justice; Leroy Davis; Qulex Dickerson, Appellants, v. GEORGETOWN STEEL CORPORATION, Appellee. James Donald COOK, Plaintiff, and James Cooper; Arthur J. Keith; Gerald Dale Lambert; Ben Coakley; Julian Gamble; Robert Davis; Marshall Ray Justice; Leroy Davis; Qulex Dickerson, Appellees, v. GEORGETOWN STEEL CORPORATION, Appellant. James COOPER; Arthur J. Keith; Gerald Dale Lambert; Ben Coakley; Julian Gamble; Robert Davis; Marshall Ray Justice; Leroy Davis; Qulex Dickerson, Plaintiffs, and James Donald Cook, Appellee, v. GEORGETOWN STEEL CORPORATION, Appellant. James COOPER; Arthur J. Keith; Gerald Dale Lambert; Ben Coakley; Julian Gamble; Robert Davis; Marshall Ray Justice; Leroy Davis; Qulex Dickerson, Plaintiffs, and James Donald Cook, Appellant, v. GEORGETOWN STEEL CORPORATION, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided August 29, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Rubillo, Georgetown, S.C. (Lawrimore, Rubillo & Darr, Jack M. Scoville, Jr.; Rosen, Rosen & Scoville, Georgetown, S.C., on brief), for appellant.

Thomas A. Bright, Greenville, S.C. (Bruce A. Petesch, Haynsworth, Baldwin, Miles, Johnson, Greaves & Edwards, Greenville, S.C., on brief), for appellee.

Before WINTER, Chief Judge, WILKINSON, Circuit Judge and TURK, Chief District Judge for the Western District of Virginia, sitting by designation.


HARRISON L. WINTER, Chief Judge:

These suits were instituted in a state court and removed to the district court where they were there consolidated. While the parties to these cross-appeals press on us issues involving their collective bargaining agreement and South Carolina's wage claim statute, we do not reach them because we conclude that the cases were improperly removed. We vacate the judgment of the district court and direct it to remand the cases to state court...

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