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Timestamp: 2019-04-18 16:25:05+00:00

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“Federal courts are courts of limited jurisdiction.” Kokkonen v. Guardian Life Ins. Co. of Am., 114 S.Ct. 1673, 1675 (1994). There is a presumption that a suit lies outside that limited jurisdiction. Howery v. Allstate Ins. Co., 243 F.3d 912, 916 (5th Cir. 2001). The burden of establishing grounds for jurisdiction rests on the party who seeks the federal forum. Settlement Funding, LLC v. Rapid Settlements, Limited, 851 F.3d 530, 537 (5th Cir. 2017).
Baker filed this civil action based on an assertion of diversity jurisdiction, which puts the burden on Baker to set forth facts that show there is complete diversity of citizenship. The court has now issued two orders (Docs. 6 and 8) that explained in careful detail exactly what Baker must allege to meet its burden. Baker has now filed an original and two amended complaints but has yet to meet that burden.
The Second Amended Complaint (Doc. 11) alleges that Baker has one member, William Charles Construction Company, LLC. That LLC is said to have two members. The first of them is William Charles, Ltd., “a corporation which is a citizen of the State of Illinois.” That is not adequate to allege the citizenship of William Charles, Ltd.
As the court explained in the first order, a corporation is deemed to be a citizen of (1) the state in which it was incorporated and (2) the state where it has its principal place of business. 28 U.S.C. § 1332(c)(1). To establish diversity jurisdiction, a complaint or notice of removal must set forth “with specificity” a corporate party's state of incorporation and its principal place of business. “Where the plaintiff [or removing party] fails to state the place of incorporation or the principal place of business of a corporate party, the pleadings are inadequate to establish diversity.” Joiner v. Diamond M Drilling Co., 677 F.2d 1035, 1039 (5th Cir. 1982). The Fifth Circuit requires strict adherence to these straightforward rules. Howery v. Allstate Ins. Co., 243 F.3d 912, 919 (5th Cir. 2001). Baker needs to allege that “William Charles, Ltd. was incorporated in the State of and has it principal place of business in the State of .” Each blank must be filled in with the name of a state.

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