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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Bell grants a property owner its motion to dismiss and remand its suit against a tenant for failure to pay rent back to the small claims county from which it originated. This is because the tenant removed the suit to state court using his claim of a federal civil rights violation to do so. However, solely using this counterclaim to remand the suit in this case is incorrect because the state court lacks jurisdiction.
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