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Per-defendant removal deadlines with a one-year diversity bar: later served rule · case 04

A defendant served months after the first defendant has already lost its right to remove.

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Case contract

Stipulated: each defendant [name, served, received] has 30 days from its own trigger, where the trigger is formal service, or later receipt of the pleading when received (not None) after service; a courtesy copy received before service does not start the clock. A deadline on a weekend or listed holiday moves to the next open day. In diversity cases removal is additionally barred after one year from commencement (anniversary, never moved): the deadline is capped there, and a defendant whose trigger is after the bar gets "barred". Return [[name, deadline or "barred"]].

Why this case matters

Docketing systems compute filing and response deadlines from trigger events; a wrong date can forfeit a right.

One recorded failure

Sample boundary fixture

This sample comes from the broken implementation of a controlled reproducer.

Boundary fixture	Actual	Expected	Outcome
two defendants diversity	`[["acme", "2023-08-02"], ["beta", "2023-08-02"]]`	`[["acme", "2023-08-02"], ["beta", "2024-06-01"]]`	Failed

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