Holding that the fraudulent joinder "doctrine effectively permits a district court to disregard, for jurisdictional purposes, the citizenship of [in-state] defendants"
Holding the claims in an action asserted against "Doe defendants" survived fraudulent-joinder analysis, as plaintiffs were endeavoring to proceed against those defendants and to conduct discovery
117 Ill. 2d 507 (Ill. 1987) Cited 344 times 2 Legal Analyses
Holding that neither doctors nor hospital owed a duty to the plaintiff to control the patient's conduct, in part because there had been no allegations that the hospital or doctors were aware of any dangerous propensities of the patient
28 U.S.C. § 1441 Cited 50,321 times 151 Legal Analyses
Holding that “[a]ny civil action of which the district courts have original jurisdiction founded on a claim or right arising under the ... laws of the United States shall be removable without regard to the citizenship or residence of the parties.”
28 U.S.C. § 1447 Cited 33,295 times 110 Legal Analyses
Holding that with exceptions not relevant here, "[a]n order remanding a case to the State court from which it was removed is not reviewable on appeal or otherwise"