Lee v. American National Insurance Company

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that failure to meet the diversity requirements for each defendant “render[s] the entire case beyond the federal court’s power to decide”
• noting that remanding could be favored where the “plaintiff might forfeit an otherwise viable state-law claim” due to improper removal
• explaining that because the district court lacked jurisdiction to decide “only some, but not all,” of the plaintiff’s claims, the court “could not have remanded [the] entire case”
• rejecting the argument that § 1447(c) requires “remand of the entire case when there is subject matter jurisdiction over some of it”
• diversity jurisdiction present only where no plaintiff 8 resides in the same State as any defendant
• “a party who corresponds to none of § 1332(a)’s categories destroys original jurisdiction over a diversity case”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).