In Re: Karen A. Briscoe Alfred Lara Wanda T. Kizer Debra Alexander Rhonda Allen Mary Green Glenda D. Abbott and Leslie Bales

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• concluding that “an appeal after final judgment is not an illusory or ineffectual means through which petitioners can pursue their arguments for a remand to state court”
• explaining that a petition for a writ of mandamus is not a substitute for an appeal
• cautioning that the “district court must not step from a threshold jurisdictional issue into a decision on the merits” when evaluating whether joinder was fraudulent
• holding a district court cannot delve into the merits of a claim in a fraudulent-joinder inquiry
• stating that the Court may consider evidence of when a claim accrued for statute of limitations purposes “or other relevant matters that are properly subject to judicial notice”
• noting that “the diverse defendants may [still] remove the action if they can establish that the non-diverse defendants were ‘fraudulently’ named or joined solely to defeat diversity jurisdiction”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).