Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog

Fifth Circuit Rules on the Citizenship of a LLC for Purposes of Diversity Jurisdiction:

As noted on Federal Civil Practice Bulletin, the Fifth Circuit in Harvey v. Grey Wolf Drilling Co., --- F.3d ----, 2008 WL 4194538 (5th Cir. Sept. 15, 2008) joined the First, Second, Fourth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits in holding that, for the purposes of diversity jurisdiction, the citizenship of an LLC is determined by the citizenship of all of its members.  Click here to read the Fifth Circuit’s opinion and here to read to post on Federal Civil Practice Bulletin.--Counseller/JM   

Recent Scholarship

The following two articles might interest our readers:

• Prof. Paul Lund, Federally-Chartered Corporations and Federal Jurisdiction
• Prof. Austen Parrish, Sovereignty, Not Due Process:  Personal Jurisdiction Over Nonresident, Alien Defendants

--RR