E.R. Squibb & Sons, Inc. v. Accident & Casualty Insurance Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that diversity jurisdiction requires that “‘all of the adverse parties in a suit . . . be completely diverse with regard to citizenship.”
• noting that citizenship of represented individuals can be ignored in favor of representative's citizenship only in the case of corporations, trusts represented by a trustee, and class action members represented by a class representative
• noting that citizenship of represented individuals can be ignored in favor of representative’s citizenship only in the case of corporations, trusts represented by a trustee, and class action members represented by a class representative
• noting \that federal courts must look to the individuals being represented rather than their collective representative to determine whether diversity of citizenship exists\
• noting that citizenship of represented individuals can be ignored in favor of representative’s citizenship only in the case of corporations, trusts represented by a trustee, and class action members represented by a class representative
• stating that “the Seventh Circuit [in Indiana Gas] has the better of this argument” and holding that “Names subscribing to insurance policy underwritten by Lloyd’s of London must be of diverse citizenship in order to support diversity jurisdiction”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).