Kathleen Wood v. Crane Co

How courts have described this case

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• stating that after thirty-day removal deadline, “[c]ourts have no discretion to permit amendments furnishing new allegations of a jurisdictional basis”
• stating that after thirty-day removal deadline, \[c]ourts have no discretion to permit amendments furnishing new allegations of a jurisdictional basis\
• finding that plaintiffs’ disclaimer of damages related to defendants’ alleged asbestos-containing valves used in the Navy “effectively preclude[d] any defense based on the valves alone”
• stating that after thirty-day removal deadline, “[c]ourts have no discretion to permit amendments furnishing new allegations of a jurisdictional basis”
• noting that although the court could have exercised jurisdiction over a case removed under § 1442(a) the case was properly remanded when the claim that was the basis of removal was severed
• stating that “after thirty days, district courts have discretion to permit amendments that correct allegations already present in the notice of removal” but that “[c]ourts have no discretion to permit amendments furnishing new allegations of a jurisdictional basis”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).