Carolina Casualty Insurance Co v. Team Equipment, Inc.

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• holding that a complaint is defective if it alleges diversity jurisdiction based on 2 residency rather than citizenship
• holding that a complaint is defective if it alleges diversity jurisdiction based on 21 residency rather than citizenship
• recognizing that challenge and allowing parties to plead jurisdictional requirements on information and belief
• explaining that a party is not “required to plead jurisdiction 2 affirmatively based on actual knowledge” at pre-service, pre-answer stage of proceedings
• allowing plaintiff to plead jurisdictional allegations on information and belief “where the facts supporting jurisdiction [were] not reasonably ascertainable by the plaintiff’
• allowing plaintiff to plead jurisdictional allegations on information and belief 12 “where the facts supporting jurisdiction [were] not reasonably ascertainable by the 13 plaintiff”

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