Luisa Chavez-Lavagnino v. Motivation Education Training

How courts have described this case

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• holding that jurisdiction based on diversity turns on citizenship at the time the complaint is filed
• explaining that, in a removed action, jurisdiction depends upon a party’s citizenship “both when the plaintiff initiate[d] the action in state court and when the defendant file[d] the notice of removal in federal court”
• “A jurisdictional defect at the time of commencement . . . cannot be remedied by a ‘change in the citizenship of a continuing party’”
• “For a party to remove a case to federal court based on diversity jurisdiction, the parties must be diverse both when the plaintiff initiates the action in state court and when the defendant files the notice of removal in federal court.”
• “For a party to remove a case to federal court based on diversity jurisdiction, the parties must be diverse both when the plaintiff initiates the action in state court and when the defendant files the notice of removal in federal court.”
• “For a party to remove a case to federal court based on diversity jurisdiction, the parties must be diverse both when the plaintiff initiates the action in state court and when the defendant files the notice of removal in federal court.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).