Covington & Burling has vowed to prove, at the “appropriate time,” that it never betrayed its former client 3M Company, as 3M alleged last month in a highly-publicized lawsuit in Minnesota. But Covington first moved to dismiss 3M’s suit last Thursday on jurisdictional grounds, arguing that the case didn’t belong in federal court.
3M lawyer William Brewer III of Bickel & Brewer told us last week that the motion was a stall tactic, and said he’d have gladly filed 3M’s case in state court if Covington had asked. If Covington was trying to buy time, it didn’t buy much. It turns out that a few hours after he read Covington’s motion, Brewer voluntarily dismissed 3M’s federal case against Covington and refiled the case in state court in St. Paul.
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