RYDER SERVICES CORP. v. SAVAGE

Civil Action No. CV 96-AR-2649-S.

945 F.Supp. 232 (1996)

RYDER SERVICES CORPORATION, Plaintiff, v. Preston Clyde SAVAGE, Defendant.

United States District Court, N.D. Alabama, Southern Division.

November 25, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bennett L. Pugh, Thomas Christopher Logan, Rives & Peterson, Birmingham, AL, for plaintiff.

Gene T. Moore, Tuscaloosa, AL, for defendant.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

ACKER, District Judge.

This case represents some highly creative thinking by plaintiff, Ryder Services Corporation ("Ryder"). Instead of waiting to be sued in state court by Preston Clyde Savage ("Savage"), its employee, under Alabama's Workers' Compensation Act, Ala.Code §§ 25-5-1 et seq., and thus be precluded by 28 U.S.C. § 1445(c) from removing the case to this court, Ryder has filed in this court a request for...

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