Blais v. Blowers

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that the exchange formed by subscribers “is, in general, a distinct legal entity that can sue or be sued in its own name, but unlike traditional mutual insurance companies, has no corporate existence”
• “[A]t the time the complaint is filed, no party can be a citizen of the same state as any opposing party.”
• “[Courts] have a continuing obligation to assess subject matter jurisdiction sua sponte at all stages of the proceeding, even when parties do not raise the issue”
• “[Courts] have a continuing obligation to assess subject matter jurisdiction sua sponte at all stages of the proceeding, even when parties do not raise the issue.”
• “members of a reciprocal insurance exchange are its subscribers,” and courts “look to the citizenships of those subscribers to determine the citizenship of the exchange itself”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).