FOILES BY FOILES v. MERRELL NAT. LABORATORIES

No. 89 C 5027.

730 F.Supp. 108 (1989)

Alicia FOILES, a minor, by Julia FOILES, her mother and next friend, Plaintiff, v. MERRELL NATIONAL LABORATORIES, A DIVISION OF RICHARDSON-MERRELL, INC., Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, E.D.

September 20, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Warren E. Abrahamson, Leonard M. Ring & Associates, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff.

Douglas P. Roller and Clifford E. Berman, Rooks, Pitts and Poust, Chicago, Ill., and Frank C. Woodside, III, Joseph E. Conley, Jr. and Frederick M. Erny, Dinsmore & Shohl, Cincinnati, Ohio, for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

NORDBERG, District Judge.

This case requires the Court to construe recent amendments to the statutes governing diversity jurisdiction and removal of actions from state court. The parties have cited no binding authority directing the outcome. For the reasons stated below, the Court orders this matter remanded to the Circuit Court of Cook County.

The facts are these. Plaintiff, an Illinois citizen, filed her action on May...

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