A federal judge in Camden has refused to kick an asbestos case back to state court, finding that the defendants did not miss the deadline for removal because the complaint failed to provide sufficient information to trigger federal jurisdiction.
In Vesper v. 3M Corporation, Chief U.S. District Judge Jerome Simandle of the District of New Jersey said plaintiff George Vesper’s assertion in his Aug. 14, 2014, complaint that he was injured when he came in contact with asbestos while working at the New York Ship Building Co. in Camden was not enough to provide adequate notice of a potential federal contractor defense and thus did not trigger the 30-day time limit for removal from New Jersey Superior Court to federal court.
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