Howery v. Allstate Ins Company

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that federal courts must presume a suit is beyond their limited jurisdiction until the “party seeking the federal forum” proves otherwise
• explaining that federal courts have limited subject matter jurisdiction
• dismissing case because record did not contain allegations establishing complete diversity
• “[I]f there is no evidence of diversity on the record, we cannot find diversity jurisdiction, and we must dismiss the action for lack of jurisdiction.”
• “[Federal courts] must presume that a suit lies outside [their] limited jurisdiction.... ”
• “We must presume that a suit lies outside this limited jurisdiction, and the burden of establishing federal jurisdiction rests on the party seeking the federal forum.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).