Boon v. Allstate Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• looking 6 for a “high degree of involvement by the defendant in the occurrences that gave rise to 7 the plaintiff’s cause of action”
• stating that “[a]fter a case has been removed, if a plaintiff seeks to join a defendant whose joinder would destroy complete diversity, the court may deny the joinder, or allow the joinder and remand the case to state court” and listing factors to be considered
• finding 22 that plaintiffs did not unreasonably delay in filing their amended complaint less than 23 three months after the original complaint and less than one month after removal
• finding the timeliness factor 8 weighed in favor of joinder where plaintiffs amended their complaint “less than three months 9 after they filed their original complaint in Superior Court, and less than a month after removal”
• considering these five factors as well as potential prejudice to plaintiff
• delay of less than three months after original complaint and less than one moth of removal was reasonable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).