District Court Remanded Suit By Hospital Seeking To Develop Long Term Care Facility In Same State As Defendant Health Care System Which Had Noncompetition Contract With Co-Defendant, Also In That State

摘要

In Weirton Medical Center, Inc. v. Trinity Health System, Inc., 2014 WL 5305982 (N.D. W. Va. 2014), the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia ruled that plaintiff West Virginia hospitals seeking to establish long term care facilities in that state could remand to West Virginia state court a suit that defendant health care facility removed to federal court based diversity of citizenship. Defendant Trinity Health System ("Trinity") attempted to enforce a lease noninterference clause with codefendants Acuity Specialty Hospital-Ohio Valley, L.P ("ASH"), with citizenship in Ohio and West Virginia, and Acuity Healthcare, L.P. ("AH"), with citizenship in Texas and North Carolina.