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PARADISE MOTORS, INC. v. MURPHY

Civ. No. 1994-82.

892 F.Supp. 703 (1994)

PARADISE MOTORS, INC., Petitioner, v. Michael E. MURPHY, District Director of the Department of the Treasury, United States Customs Service, Respondent.

District Court of Virgin Islands, D. St. Thomas and St.

November 29, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jewel L. Cooper, Tom Bolt & Associates, St. Thomas, VI, for plaintiff.

Clarence B. Taylor, Office of U.S. Atty., St. Thomas, VI, for defendant.

OPINION

MOORE, Chief Judge:

Petitioner Paradise Motors, Inc.'s ("Paradise Motors") motion for remand requires us to once again navigate the precarious shoals that emerge at the confluence of Virgin Islands and federal law. At issue here is whether a federal officer properly removed a case involving the customs laws in the Virgin Islands. Although we conclude that this case was improvidently removed under 28 U.S.C. § 1442(a) (1976), we find that...

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