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D. Mass. L.R. 81.1
Removal
(a) Filing of State Court Record. Within 28 days after filing a notice for removal of an action
from a state court to this court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1446, the party filing the notice shall
file certified or attested copies of all records and proceedings in the state court and a
certified or attested copy of all docket entries in the state court.
(b) Failure to File. If the clerk has not received the papers required to be filed under subsection
(a) within 42 days of the filing of the notice for removal, the case shall be remanded to the
state court from which it was removed, unless the court directs otherwise.
(c) Remand. When a case is remanded to a state court, the clerk shall mail certified copies of
the docket and order of remand, together with the remainder of the original file, to the clerk
of the state court.
(d) Timing of Remand. Absent a court order to the contrary, no sooner than 30 days following
an order of the court remanding a case to state court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1447(c), the
clerk shall remand the case to state court consistent with subsection (c). A motion for
reconsideration of an order of remand shall not further delay the transfer of the file to state
court unless the court orders otherwise.
History
Effective September 1, 1990; amended effective December 1, 2009, June 17, 2022.
Provenance
- Source
- www.mad.uscourts.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-18
- Edition
- fed-district-2026-09-18
- Content hash
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