Ravenswood Investment Co. v. Avalon Correctional Services

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• declining to dismiss a nondiverse defendant because “the fact-finding inherent in Rule 19 determinations is best left to the district court in the first instance”
• “The sole recognized exception to the time-of-filing rule is when a court completely dismisses from the case a nondiverse party pursuant to Rule 21.” (emphasis added)
• \When diversity is premised on diversity of citizenship under 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (a)...each plaintiff must be diverse from each defendant to have what is known as complete diversity.\
• “A district court can dismiss a dispensable nondiverse party pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 21 to cure a jurisdictional defect at any point in the litigation, including after judgment has entered.”
• requiring “complete diversity” between the parties
• requiring “complete diversity” between the parties

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