Prevailing Party in M Contract Dispute Ordered to Establish Diversity
With more than $10 million on the line, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has instructed a district court to determine whether it has...
With more than $10 million on the line, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has instructed a district court to determine whether it has subject matter jurisdiction over a case involving a contractual dispute between limited liability companies, as the prevailing party has failed multiple times to establish citizenship of its members. Without getting into the crux of the underlying dispute, the appellate panel solely addressed subject matter jurisdiction in BRT Management LLC v. Malden Storage LLC , a suit which was filed in January 2017, in U.