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Civil Procedure - Removal - Remand - Attorney’s Fees (access required)

By Deborah Elkins
Published: January 5, 2009

A Norfolk U.S. District Court grants defendant wholesale club’s motion to remand to state court a former employee’s suit alleging the club was negligent in failing to protect her from assault by her estranged husband, who shot her on the club’s premises, but the court denies attorney’s fees to defendant incurred in pursuing the remand. The ...
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