Mitchell v. Barbee Lumber Co.

How courts have described this case

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• fraudulent joinder exists if there is no cause of action in fact against a nondiverse defendant
• “fact that plaintiff could have alleged multiple publications or several causes of action is irrelevant”
• court may determine whether a party has been fraudulently joined “by any means available”
• “A distributor normally has no direct involvement in the preparation or production of an allegedly libelous article.... Accordingly, the danger in self-censorship is more threatening that it is with the original publisher....”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).