United Food & Commercial Workers Union, Local 919, Afl-Cio v. Centermark Properties Meriden Square, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that lack of subject matter jurisdiction may be raised sua sponte by the Court and that “[w]here jurisdiction is lacking . . . dismissal is mandatory”
• recognizing that lack of subject matter jurisdiction may be raised sua sponte by the court and that \[w]here jurisdiction is lacking . . . dismissal is mandatory\
• recognizing that lack of subject matter jurisdiction may be raised sua sponte by the Court and that “[w]here jurisdiction is lacking . . . dismissal is mandatory”
• stating that “in our federal system of limited jurisdiction . . . the court sua sponte, at any stage of the proceedings, may raise the question of whether the court has subject matter jurisdiction.”
• remanding the case for the district court to determine the citizenship of the local’s membership
• “Where the pleadings themselves are inconclusive as to the amount in controversy, however, federal courts may look outside those pleadings to other evidence in the record”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).