Marshall v. CSX Transportation Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• agreeing with multiple other district courts in determining that “if a fictitious defendant is described in the plaintiff’s complaint as ‘an individual who acted as a company’s agent,’ then that employee should be considered as a named defendant for determining diversity jurisdiction”
• “where a plaintiff’s complaint provides a description of a fictitious defendant in such a way that his or her identity cannot reasonably be questioned, the court should consider the citizenship of the fictitious defendant”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).