Batton v. Georgia Gulf

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• observing in a case, where the State of Louisiana was but one of many, otherwise diverse defendants: “The question is whether having one defendant with no citizenship destroys diversity jurisdiction. The Magistrate Judge concluded that it does and the court agrees”
• if an agency is an alter ego of the state, it “is not a citizen at all” and “having one defendant with no citizenship destroys diversity jurisdiction . . . .”
• “If a party is not a citizen of a state at all, then it is not a citizen of a different state and it would be inappropriate to allow that party to bring a case or be subject to federal jurisdiction based only on diversity of citizenship.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).