State of Louisiana v. Union Oil Co of CA

How courts have described this case

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

• “[T]he State is the fee title owner of the Section 16 lands involved in this law suit . . . .”
• “[A] state is not a citizen for purposes of diversity jurisdiction.” (citation and quotation marks omitted)
• because “the State of Louisiana is a real party in interest in this suit” its presence “defeats diversity jurisdiction.”
• the state and the parish school board bringing suit on the state’s behalf were both named plaintiffs, so diversity jurisdiction would have existed had the state been a nominal party
• “Because the State is the fee title owner of the . . . lands involved in this law suit, the State has more than a ‘nominal’ interest in property it owns.”
• “Because the State is the fee title owner of the . . . lands involved in this law suit, the State has more than a ‘nominal’ interest in property it owns.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).