Airlines Reporting Corporation v. S And N Travel, Inc.

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• explaining that courts may consider whether the assignor controls the conduct of the litigation in evaluating a justification for a transfer
• noting that real and substantial parties to the controversy \should not be confused with the 'real party in interest' standard set forth in Fed. R. Civ. P. 17(a).\
• emphasizing the importance of using a “cautious eye” to ensure that such assignments “do not inappropriately channel ordinary tort and contract litigation, essentially disputes of a local nature, into the federal courts”
• \[W]e construe section 1359 broadly to bar any agreement whose 'primary aim' is to concoct federal diversity jurisdiction\
• “‘[C]itizens’ upon whose diversity a plaintiff grounds jurisdiction must be real and substantial parties to the controversy.’”
• “We give careful scrutiny to assignments which might operate to manufacture diversity jurisdiction....”

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