Smilgin v. New York Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• holding that unanimous consent was not required because non-consenting defendant “should not be considered a ‘defendant’ for the purpose of joinder in removal” when his and “the Plaintiffs’ interest in the primary thrust of this lawsuit are the same”
• finding an assignment was partial where the plaintiff assigned 1% of a claim to a nondiverse party

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).