United States Fifth Circuit

In a negligence suit by surviving family members against a decedent's employer, dismissal for lack of complete diversity between the parties is reversed where, for purposes of federal diversity jurisdiction, a limited liability company (LLC) is a citizen of the states of which its members are citizens, not of the state where it is organized.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/15/2008
• Published 09/15/2008

Judges

• HICKS, District Judge:, Before GARZA and ELROD, Circuit Judges, and HICKS, District Judge.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jim S. Hall, Jim S. Hall & Associates, Metairie, LA, for Harvey.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jennie Porche Pellegrin, Ben Louis Mayeaux, Laborde & Neuner, Lafayette, LA, for Defendant-Appellant.