Spann v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• declining to sever claims against non-diverse defendant on the ground that doing so “would be appropriate only if the court has jurisdiction,” which it did not
• rejecting defendant’s request to sever the claims, since the court lacked subject matter jurisdiction
• relevant, as a surrounding circumstance, that the plan documents mentioned only the sole-proprietor.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).