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How courts have described this case

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• holding that a district court cannot acquire subject matter jurisdiction over an improperly removed case through consolidation
• holding that a district court cannot acquire subject matter jurisdiction over an improperly removed case through consolidation
• court cannot consolidate “improperly removed action” over which it lacked subject matter jurisdiction with another action pending in the same court
• “Rule 42(a) requires that both actions be ‘pending before the court’ and an improperly removed action does not meet this criterion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).