Barthelemy v. Air Lines Pilots Ass'n

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, where three partners in defendant-law firm are U.S. citizens domiciled abroad, federal court lacks diversity jurisdiction over entire action
• holding that where there is an “inordinate delay” before a motion for leave to amend, “[t]he burden is on the party who wishes to amend to provide a satisfactory explanation”
• explaining that a suit against a partnership could not be premised on diversity if foreign-residing United States citizen partners are domiciled abroad since a partnership is deemed to take on the citizenship of each of its partners
• affirming denial of motion for leave to amend where discovery had closed and plaintiff offered no valid excuse for delay
• affirming denial of motion for leave to amend if inordinate delay was not supported by adequate justification
• affirming denial of leave to amend where “no satisfactory explanation is offered for the delay” in moving to amend

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).