Federal Case

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that when the excess carriers “joined in the contest of the substantive issues in the case” it undermined their argument that there exists no live controversy involving the excess carriers
• “A party seeking a declaratory judgment bears the burden of proving that the district court has jurisdiction.”
• lead Name sued individually must satisfy the requirements of diversity and jurisdictional amount
• “[W]here a change in parties, necessary to the existence of jurisdiction, is appropriate and 4 is made (even on or after appeal), appellate courts have acted as if the trial court had jurisdiction from the beginning of the litigation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).