But there is really no excuse for defense counsel’s present lack of knowledge of such a firmly established principle after well over a full decade’s repetition by our Court of Appeals and others - and that omission is doubly troubling where, as here, the limited liability company is counsel’s own client, so that the relevant facts are readily available to counsel (unlike the situation where a limited liability company is suing or is being sued by counsel’s client). For a good many years this Court was content simply to identify such failures to the lawyers representing plaintiffs in pursuance of its mandated obligations to “police subject matter jurisdiction sua sponte” (Wernsing v. And that teaching has of course been echoed many times over by this Court and its colleagues. 1998) and a whole battery of cases since then, exemplified by Thomas v. As to limited liability company Sovereign, however, Notice ♤ 1 All further citations to provisions of Title 28 will simply take the form “Section -.” recites two irrelevant facts as though it were also a conventional corporation: its state of formation and the location of its principal place of business: Defendant Sovereign is a North Carolina limited liability company, with its headquarters and primary place of business in North Carolina Those allegations ignore more than a dozen years of repeated teaching from our Court of Appeals (see, e.g., Cosgrove v. §1332(c)(1).1 Notice ♥ is equally impeccable in identifying Hines’ North Carolina citizenship. Notice ¶ 3 properly identifies both facets of corporate citizenship of plaintiff Zebra Technologies Corporation (“Zebra”) in accordance with 28 U.S.C. Because counsel for Sovereign and Hines have inexplicably failed to discharge their clients’ burden to establish federal jurisdiction, this action is sua sponte remanded to its place of origin. 11 C 8929 MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER Sovereign Holdings, LLC (“Sovereign”) and Jeffrey Hines (“Hines”) have just removed this action from the Circuit Court of the Nineteenth Judicial District, Lake County, Illinois, to this District Court, seeking to invoke federal subject matter jurisdiction on diversity-of-citizenship grounds (see Notice of Removal (“Notice”) ♧). Sovereign Holdings, LLC d/b/a Sovereign Advisers, LLC and Jeffrey Hines, Defendants. 9 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION Zebra Technologies Corporation, Plaintiff, v.
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