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How courts have described this case

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

• holding that Rule 12(a)(4)(A), which then sets forth the timing for a responsive 10 pleading, is not applicable to FAA motions because such motions are not pleadings
• “Veil-piercing [in the ERISA context] does not make a party secondarily liable. Rather, it collapses corporate distinctions to make for joint primary liability.”
• treating the inquiries for ancillary and supplemental jurisdiction as the same
• “The threshold requirement for a district court to even entertain abstention is a contemporaneous parallel litigation.”
• construing a party’s filing by its “substance,” not its “form”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).