Football Player Gets Remand in Personal Injury Action

A federal judge from the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has granted a college football player’s request to remand his lawsuit back to state court, saying the removal was defective “because several of the defendants are Pennsylvania citizens and because not all defendants consented to removal.”   The impetus for the litigation was an incident that occurred on November 5, 2005 when plaintiff Preston Plevretes suffered a severe brain injury, while playing on the La Salle University foo