Susan Kanter Sharon Plunk v. Warner-Lambert Co. And Pfizer Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “a party seeking to invoke diversity jurisdiction should be able to allege affirmatively the actual citizenship of the relevant parties”
• holding that a complaint was deficient where it merely alleged 16 that several corporate defendants “were not citizens of California”
• holding that there was no diversity jurisdiction where plaintiff made allegations of residency but not citizenship
• holding that remand for defective diversity allegations was unreviewable even though the removing defendant “could potentially have cured its defective allegations regarding citizenship by amending its notice of removal”
• holding that defendant failed to plead diversity jurisdiction when it did not “affirmatively allege the state of citizenship of corporate defendants” but rather “merely alleged that they were not citizens of California”
• holding that defendant failed to plead diversity jurisdiction when it did not “affirmatively allege the state of citizenship of corporate defendants” but rather “merely alleged that they were not citizens of California”

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