Richard J. Dodson v. Spiliada Maritime Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• finding that, in making a determination regarding improper joinder, a court does not decide whether plaintiffs “will actually or even probably prevail on the merits, but looks only” for a reasonable possibility that plaintiffs may do so
• “In evaluating fraudulent joinder claims, [the court] must initially resolve ... all ambiguities in the controlling state law in favor of the non-removing party.”
• “In evaluating fraudulent joinder claims, we must . . . resolve all . . . ambiguities in the controlling state law in favor of the non-removing party.”
• “We do not decide whether the plaintiff will actually or even probably prevail 11 on the merits, but look only for a possibility that he may do so.”
• “We do not decide whether the plaintiff will actually or 6 even probably prevail on the merits, but look only for a possibility that he may do so.”
• “To prove their allegation of fraudulent 7 joinder [the defendants] must demonstrate that there is no possibility that [the plaintiff] would be 8 able to establish a cause of action against them in state court”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).