FEDERAL DEPOSIT INS. v. CONSTRUCTORA JAPIMEL, INC.

No. 19-1845.

981 F.3d 66 (2020)

FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION, as Receiver for Doral Bank, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. CONSTRUCTORA JAPIMEL, INC., Defendant, Appellee, Mapfre Praico Insurance Co. of Puerto Rico, Defendant, Third-Party Plaintiff, Appellee, and Echandi Guzman & Assocs., Inc., Echandi, Inc.; Efrain Echandi-Otero; Ace Insurance Co., Third-Party Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

FILED November 24, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Duncan N. Stevens , with whom Colleen J. Boles and J. Scott Watson were on brief, for appellant.

Manuel Sosa , with whom Ian P. Carvajal and Saldaña, Carvajal & Vélez-Rivé, P.S.C. were on brief, for appellee Constructora Japimel, Inc.

Before Lynch, Selya, and Lipez, Circuit Judges.


The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ("FDIC") appeals from a March 2019 order remanding this removed case to Puerto Rico's Court of First Instance. We hold that the district court erred when, contrary to the text of 12 U.S.C. § 1819(b)(2)(B), it remanded to the local Puerto Rico court a suit asserting claims by Constructora...

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