Mollan v. Torrance

How courts have described this case

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• holding that failure to meet presentment requirement could not be cured during the pendency of the appeal because the attempts “come too late to establish subject-matter jurisdiction in the district court”
• recognizing “the core 11 principle of federal removal jurisdiction on the basis of diversity—namely, that it is 12 determined (and must exist
• finding that police report from underlying accident listing defendant’s address was insufficient to prove defendant’s citizenship
• holding, in the FTCA context, that “the appropriate analysis is whether the claimant exhausted her administrative remedies at the time she filed her complaint”
• holding jurisdiction of the court depends upon the state of things at the time the action is brought, and that once vested, jurisdiction is not changed by subsequent events
• explaining that the Attorney General “shall make an appearance in [state] 10 court and advise such court as to whether the [HHS] Secretary has determined [that the defendant] is deemed to be an employee of the Public Health Service”

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