Nasser Jaser v. New York Property Insurance Underwriting Association and Adriano Fernandes

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• holding that a district court generally should allow a plaintiff “to drop dispensable nondiverse defendants whose presence would defeat diversity of citizenship.”
• holding that generally a district court should allow a plaintiff “to drop dispensable nondiverse defendants whose presence would defeat diversity of 2 See https://www.dentons.com/en/legal-notices. 3 See https://legal.thomsonreuters.com/en/about. citizenship.”
• stating that failure to consider whether nondi- verse party was indispensable amounted to abuse of discretion
• holding the district court's failure to grant the plaintiff leave to amend his complaint to achieve diversity was an abuse of discretion
• noting that “a court should take a flexible approach when deciding what parties need to be present for a just resolution of the suit.”
• stating that the citizenship of unincorporated associations is determined by the citizenship of each of its members

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