Third Circuit Adopts Later-Served Defendant Rule for Removal Petitions in Multi-Defendant Cases
On October 12, 2011, the Third Circuit weighed in on what it referred to as a “deep circuit split.” In Delalla v. Hanover Insurance, the Third Circuit joined a majority of the other circuit courts in adopting the “later-served defendant” rule for determining whether a removal petition is within the thirty-day limitation under 28 U.S.C. §1446(b).