Briano v. Conseco Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• “[The] inquiry into validity of complaint is more searching under Fed.R.Civ.P. 26 /// 27 /// 28 1 12(b)(6) than when party claims fraudulent joinder.”
• defendant is disregarded as a “sham” defendant when “there is absolutely no possibility that the plaintiff will be able to establish a cause of action against the non-diverse defendant in state court”
• defendant is disregarded as a “sham” defendant when “there is absolutely no possibility that the plaintiff will be able to establish a cause of action against the non-diverse defendant in state court”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).