Holding that the fraudulent joinder "doctrine effectively permits a district court to disregard, for jurisdictional purposes, the citizenship of [in-state] defendants"
Concluding that a contract was unenforceable because it "did not contain any material terms of the sale", which made it "impossible to determine what the nature and extent of the parties' obligations were, if any"
Holding that it was defamatory per se for the defendant to tell the plaintiff's competitor that the plaintiff was a "fraud and being investigated for fraud crimes with banks and customers"
Holding defendant's "newfound reliance" on a deposition as trigger for thirty-day removal window was "disingenuous" and untimely where defendant had previously received the exhibits upon which the deposition testimony was based
Holding that a plaintiff must allege that there was a "unity of purpose or a common design and understanding, or a meeting of the minds in an unlawful arrangement."
Fed. R. Civ. P. 6 Cited 50,240 times 24 Legal Analyses
Holding that "if the last day [of a period] is a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday, the period continues to run until the end of the next day that is not a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday."