American Casualty Co. of Reading v. Belcher

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• noting a split of authority and declining to extend fraudulent joinder to plaintiffs
• declining to extend the fraudulent joinder doctrine to plaintiffs and noting that defendant “may very well have a viable statute of limitations defense, but they will need to bring it before the state court”
• “Without contrary direction from the Seventh Circuit, this Court finds that extending the doctrine of fraudulent joinder to joinder of plaintiffs would be, like fraudulent misjoinder, a massive increase to this Court's jurisdiction.”
• “Without contrary direction from the Seventh Circuit, this Court finds that extending the doctrine of fraudulent joinder to joinder of plaintiffs would be, like fraudulent misjoinder, a massive increase to this Court's jurisdiction.”
• “Without contrary direction from the Seventh Circuit, this Court finds that extending the doctrine of fraudulent joinder to joinder of plaintiffs would be . . . a massive increase to this Court’s jurisdiction.”
• “Without contrary direction from the Seventh Circuit, this Court finds that extending the doctrine of fraudulent joinder to joinder of plaintiffs would be, like fraudulent misjoinder, a massive increase to this Court’s jurisdiction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).