is the company's "principal place of business" for purposes of federal diversity jurisdiction ... diversity jurisdiction refers to "the place where the corporation's high-level officers direct, ... The phrase "principal place of business" derives from the federal diversity jurisdiction statute: ...

Articles - 2010-04-05 00:00

difficult for a defendant to establish federal diversity jurisdiction because plaintiffs' counsel would ... commerce, and the concept of diversity jurisdiction as intended by the framers of the United States ... rescind or reform the insurance policies in question. Although federal diversity jurisdiction would ...

Articles - 2006-05-01 00:00

"principal place of business" for determining federal diversity jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1332 ... diversity jurisdiction remains on the party asserting it, and when challenged, the parties must support ...

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But three recent losses in diverse jurisdictions - U.S. v. Oracle in Northern California, FTC v. Arch ...

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Congress enacted the Class Action Fairness Act. CAFA broadens the federal diversity jurisdiction statute ... to minimize plaintiffs' counsel's ability to "game the system by trying to defeat diversity jurisdiction" because "interstate class actions typically involve more people, more money and more ...

Articles - 2009-06-01 00:00

defendant. Thus, CAFA changes diversity jurisdiction for class actions in two major ways. First, ... B. Exceptions CAFA contains various exceptions to its broad grant of federal diversity jurisdiction over class actions. For example, under certain circumstances specified in CAFA, district courts ...

Articles - 2005-06-01 00:00

in their complaints.Diversity jurisdiction under the Act, as in all other cases, is based not on the parties' residency, ... is subject to the Class Action Fairness Act's expanded diversity jurisdiction. These new class ...

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$75,000 in damages - the threshold for ordinary diversity jurisdiction. CAFA, however, was clearly ...

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The public policy behind granting diversity jurisdiction to federal courts was the perception that state ...

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in the Consolidated Class Action. Stockton also sued a number of California banks, thereby defeating diversity jurisdiction. Defendant AIG Financial Products Corporation and AIG Sunamerica Life Assurance Company ...

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