Donaldson v. Illinois State Board of Education

How courts have described this case

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• holding that filing a motion to amend immediately after removal and before any discovery occurred indicated that the motion was made for purposes of destroying diversity jurisdiction
• explaining that “plaintiff is free to sue the additional defendant in- state court should she wish to do so”
• “In deciding whether to permit or deny joinder, the district court must balance the defendant’s interests in maintaining the federal forum with the competing interests of not having parallel lawsuits”
• “There has been no showing by [the p]laintiff that she will not be able to obtain full relief on her claims in this [c]ourt without the presence of [the proposed] defendant. . . . [T]here has been no suggestion that [the current defendants] would be unable to satisfy a judgment . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).