James Harris v. Lee Rand

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that a corporation is a citizen of both its state of incorporation and the state in which its principal place of business is located
• establishing that a complaint that follows the general framework set forth in Form 7(a) in the Appendix of Forms to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure is sufficient to satisfy Rule 8(a)(l)'s jurisdictional pleading requirement
• requiring allegations of corporate defendants’ states of incorporation and principal places of business
• a pleading “must include allegations of both 14 the state of incorporation and the principal place of business of corporate parties”
• “[A] complaint 17 must include allegations of both the state of incorporation and the principal place of 18 business of corporate parties.”
• “[T]he district court may properly require a party asserting federal subject matter 2 jurisdiction to establish its jurisdictional allegations by competent proof.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).