Camden Williams v. the State of Texas

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that there was no diversity jurisdiction where the plaintiff sued a state agency alongside private entities
• finding a presumption that federal courts “are without jurisdiction unless the contrary affirmatively appears”
• finding a presumption that federal courts “are without jurisdiction unless the contrary affirmatively appears”
• finding a presumption that federal courts “are without jurisdiction unless the contrary affirmatively appears”
• “Failure to make proper and complete allegations of diversity jurisdiction relegates a litigant to . . . jurisdictional purgatory.”
• “In the federal courts ‘John 19 Doe’ casts no magical spell on a complaint otherwise lacking in diversity jurisdiction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).