Tapscott v. MS Dealer Service Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• holding misjoinder may be as fraudulent as the joinder of a resident against whom a plaintiff has no possibility of a cause of action
• holding misjoinder may be as fraudulent as the joinder of a resident against whom a plaintiff has no possibility of a cause of action
• stating that not every misjoinder constitutes fraudulent misjoinder; only the attempts to join parties that are “so egregious as to constitute fraudulent joinder” will qualify
• finding that where a plaintiff has made an unspecified demand for damages, a lower burden of proof is warranted because there is simply no estimate of damages to which a court may defer
• stating that complete diversity requires that every plaintiff be diverse from every defendant
• adopting the “preponderance of the evidence” standard after examining the various burdens of proof in different factual contexts

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