Government of Virgin Islands v. Gooding

How courts have described this case

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• finding the plaintiff’s previous voluntarily dismissed suit had “no bearing on diversity jurisdiction” because “[t]he rule in the federal courts is that the effect of a voluntary dismissal without prejudice pursuant to Rule 41(a
• “the second complaint does not relate back to the first complaint because the second complaint was not an amendment, but rather the commencement of a separate action”
• {d]iversity jurisdiction is based on the facts at the time of filing.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).