ASTEN v. SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE CO.

Civil A. Nos. 95-2305-GTV, 95-2304-GTV.

914 F.Supp. 430 (1996)

Richard ASTEN and Helen Carriger, Individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY, a Missouri corporation, et. al., Defendants. Don PAYNE, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY, a corporation, Defendant.

United States District Court, D. Kansas.

January 4, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Mullies, Hudson & Mullies, Fort Scott, KS, David O. Danis, John J. Carey, Joseph P. Danis, Carey, Danis, L.L.C., Clayton, MO, for Don H. Payne.

Michael D. Moeller, William R. Drexel, Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., Topeka, KS, Robert L. Farmer, Larry D. Nuss, Nuss & Farmer, Fort Scott, KS, R. Lawrence Ward, Kirk J. Goza, William E. Quirk, Shughart, Thomson & Kilroy, Kansas City, MO, for Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.

Michael L. Sexton, Sexton, Shelor, Latimer & Pryor, LLP, Kansas City, MO, Rex Carr, Carr, Korein, Tillery, Kunin, Montroy & Glass, St. Louis, MO, for Richard Asten, Helen Carriger.

Michael D. Moeller, William R. Drexel, Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., Topeka, KS, Stephen M. Bledsoe, Shughart, Thomson & Kilroy, Overland Park, KS, R. Lawrence Ward, Kirk J. Goza, William E. Quirk, Shughart, Thomson & Kilroy, Kansas City, MO, Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, a Missouri Corporation.

Stephen M. Bledsoe, Shughart, Thomson & Kilroy, Overland Park, KS, Thomas A. Sheehan, R. Lawrence Ward, Kirk J. Goza, William E. Quirk, Shughart, Thomson & Kilroy, Kansas City, MO, for Southwestern Bell Corporation, a Delaware corporation.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

VAN BEBBER, Chief Judge.

On October 17, 1995, the court issued an order directing defendant Southwestern Bell Telephone Company to show cause why these cases should not be remanded to Kansas state court for lack of diversity jurisdiction. For the reasons set forth below, the court orders the cases remanded to Kansas state court.

Plaintiffs Asten and Carriger (Asten) originally...

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