New York v. Fuller

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the plaintiff’s complaint should have been dismissed because “[o]n its face . . . [it] manifests a lack of diversity jurisdiction”
• holding that, in a case in which the plaintiff’s complaint failed to allege diversity jurisdiction, the case should be dismissed “without prejudice to the plaintiffs’ right to pursue their remedy in a subsequent state proceeding”
• holding DiFrischia distinguishable even though defendant did not raise jurisdictional defect until adverse judgment was rendered
• assessing costs and attorney fees against defendant for bad faith refusal to seek dismissal before appeal
• explaining generally that a district court “lacking [subject-matter] jurisdiction cannot render judgment”
• “A court lacking jurisdiction cannot render judgment but must dismiss the cause at any stage of the proceedings in which it becomes apparent that jurisdiction is lacking.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).