Opinion
Civil Action 22-00469-BAJ-RLB
01-10-2023
BELINDA MCKAY v. WALMART INC., ET AL.
RULING AND ORDER
BRIAN A. JACKSON, JUDGE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
On December 12, 2022, the Magistrate Judge issued a Report And Recommendation (Doc. 16, the “R&R”) recommending that Plaintiffs Motion To Remand (Doc. 2) be granted and that the above-captioned action be remanded to the Twenty-First Judicial District Court for the Parish of Livingston, State of Louisiana, due to Defendants' failure to timely remove Plaintiffs action to this Court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1446(b). Defendants object to the R&R. (Doc. 17).
Having carefully considered Defendants' Notice of Removal and Amended Notice of Removal (Docs. 1, 11), the parties' memoranda setting forth their respective positions regarding whether Defendants' removal was timely (Docs. 2, 11), the relevant evidentiary record, and Defendants' objection to the R&R (Doc. 17), the Court APPROVES the Magistrate Judge's Report And Recommendation and ADOPTS it as the Court's opinion in this matter.
Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that Plaintiffs Motion To Remand (Doc. 2) be and is hereby GRANTED, and that this action be and is hereby immediately REMANDED to the Twenty-First Judicial District Court for the Parish of Livingston, State of Louisiana.