PREVAS v. CHECKMATE INVESTIGATIVE SERVICES, INC.

Civil No. AMD 96-3769.

951 F.Supp. 568 (1996)

Peter T. PREVAS, Plaintiff, v. CHECKMATE INVESTIGATIVE SERVICES, INC., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Maryland.

December 16, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter A. Prevas, Baltimore, MD, William H. Murphy, Jr., Baltimore, MD, David Manoogian, Washington, DC, for plaintiff.

Andrew Januitto, Mudd, Harrison & Burch, Towson, MD, Ernest Allen Cohen, Tucson, AZ, for defendants.


ORDER

DAVIS, District Judge.

The decades-old struggle of many plaintiffs to try actions in state court, against the vigorous efforts of many defendants to remove cases to federal court for trial, has never been an evenly-matched contest. This is partly because plaintiffs have the benefit of (1) a presumption against federal jurisdiction, which is supplemented by the (2) "general principle that the removal statute is to be strictly construed." Sun...

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