Dale Noble Files Personal Injury Lawsuit Against Home Depot in New York

Dale Noble's personal injury lawsuit against Home Depot U.S.A., Inc. moved to federal court last week after the Atlanta-based retailer pulled the case out of Monroe County's state court system and into the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York.

Home Depot filed the Notice of Removal on March 12, 2026, paying a $405 filing fee to transfer the case from the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of Monroe, where it had been docketed as E2025027075. The federal action was assigned case number 6:26-cv-06288.

Attorney Howard F. Strongin filed the removal paperwork on Home Depot's behalf, with Kiernan Trebach listed as defendant counsel of record. Within minutes of the initial filing, Home Depot submitted a demand for a jury trial at 4:08 p.m. and a corporate disclosure statement at 4:10 p.m. The federal docket classifies the case under "360 Torts - Personal Injury - Other" with the removal cause listed as a petition under 28 U.S.C. § 1441, the general federal removal statute for non-motor vehicle matters.

The Notice of Removal arrived with seven attachments: the original summons and complaint, an affidavit of service, two separate stipulations extending Home Depot's time to answer in state court, an answer, a demand, and a civil cover sheet. The presence of two time-extension stipulations indicates the parties had negotiated additional response time before Home Depot opted to remove the case to federal court entirely.

The case is assigned to Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford and referred to Magistrate Judge Colleen D. Holland.

The substantive facts of Noble's claim remain undisclosed in the public record. The complaint, attached as an exhibit to the removal filing, has not been independently obtained, leaving the specific nature of the alleged injury, the date and location of the incident, and any damages figure Noble is seeking all unconfirmed. Under federal diversity jurisdiction rules, a defendant removing a case generally must show complete diversity between the parties and an amount in controversy exceeding $75,000, though the docket metadata does not specify which jurisdictional grounds Home Depot cited in the removal notice itself.

No filings by Noble appear in the federal docket as of March 18, 2026, meaning no motion to remand has yet been recorded. The case remains in its earliest procedural stage, with no scheduling orders or court dates set.