A Practitioner’s Guide to Federal Officer Removal

by Lisa N. Himes

November 29, 2017, 3:40 PM EST

Federal officer removal is a doctrine for removing certain cases from state to
federal court. It is available to federal officers or persons acting under them,
including corporations. This article addresses the key issues involved in removing
cases on federal officer grounds and discusses how to correct recurrent problems
with defendants’ removal pleadings on this significant removal ground.