City of Warren v. City of Detroit

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “an expansive application of [the artful pleading] doctrine would effectively abrogate the well-pleaded complaint rule.”
• acknowledging that a non-party to a consent judgment “is entitled to its ‘own day in court’ to challenge actions taken under the judgments”
• “[P]arties who choose to resolve litigation through settlement may not dispose of the claims of a third party . . . .”
• defendant could not remove on basis that plaintiff's claim could impact ability of one party to comply with a federal consent judgment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).