United Investors Life Insurance Company v. Waddell & Reed Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• finding that § 1447(d) barred appellate review of order remanding case to state court 22 based on perceived lack of subject-matter jurisdiction
• noting that a district court has power to remand a case sua sponte when it lacks subject matter 11 jurisdiction
• stating that “the district court had a duty to establish subject matter jurisdiction 5 over [an] action sua sponte, whether the parties raised the issue or not”
• stating that “the district court had a duty to establish subject matter jurisdiction 5 over [an] action sua sponte, whether the parties raised the issue or not”
• holding 21 that “the district court had a duty to establish subject[-]matter jurisdiction over the removed action sua sponte, whether the parties raised the issue or not.”
• stating that “the district court had a duty to establish subject matter jurisdiction 5 over [an] action sua sponte, whether the parties raised the issue or not”

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