HALL v. NORTH AMERICAN VAN LINES, INC.

No. 04-16182.

476 F.3d 683 (2007)

Eva HALL, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. NORTH AMERICAN VAN LINES, INC.; George Correa; All City Moving and Storage, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed January 29, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey K. Perkins, San Francisco, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant.

Gregg S. Garfinkel, Robyn M. McKibbin, Stone, Rosenblatt & Cha, Woodland Hills, CA, for defendant-appellee North American Van Lines, Inc.

Guy W. Stilson, Low, Ball & Lynch, San Francisco, CA, for defendants-appellees George Correa and All-City Moving and Storage.

Before ROBERT R. BEEZER, DIARMUID F. O'SCANNLAIN, and ANDREW J. KLEINFELD, Circuit Judges.


BEEZER, Circuit Judge.

We consider whether federal law preempts state law claims for breach of an interstate shipping contract and for common law fraud and conversion. The district court concluded that it had removal jurisdiction over Plaintiff-Appellant Eva Hall's complaint because her claims were completely preempted by the 1906 Carmack Amendment to the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887, 49 U.S.C. § 14706. The district court denied Hall's motion to remand and...

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