Lawrence Builders, Inc. v. Kolodner

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• “Because fraudulent joinder describes any improper joinder, a defendant need not prove that the plaintiff intended to mislead or deceive in order to sustain its burden.”
• fraudulent joinder occurs where there is “no possibility that the plaintiff would be able to establish a cause of action against the non-diverse defendants in state court”
• when claimant seeks no relief from non-diverse party, court finds that “[a] party fraudulently joined to defeat removal . . . is disregarded in determining diversity of citizenship”
• fraudulent joinder doctrine applies to “outright fraud in plaintiffs recitation of jurisdictional facts” and when there is “no possibility that plaintiff would be able to establish a cause of action against the non-diverse defendant in state court.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).