Knutson v. Allis-Chalmers Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “to establish that there has 16 been no fraudulent joinder, a plaintiff need only have one potentially valid claim against a non- 17 diverse defendant”
• finding right of removal 10 is a creature of statute and jurisdiction is confined to the precise limits defined by statute
• “A plaintiff need only have one potentially valid claim against a non-diverse defendant” to survive a fraudulent joinder challenge.
• “The grant of summary judgment was not a voluntary act on the part of Plaintiffs and cannot serve as the basis for removal.”
• “Federal district courts are not entitled to 14 determine uncertain issues of law in order to ascertain whether there has been a fraudulent 15 joinder, as those issues must be determined in state court.”
• “Because a joinder may only be considered fraudulent if there was a failure to state a claim as a matter of well-settled law, then a state court grant of summary judgment deciding a new or controversial question of law would not support a finding of fraudulent joinder”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).