United States Ninth Circuit

Federal removal jurisdiction on the basis of diversity is appropriately assessed at the time a complaint is filed and removal is effected, and a party may not thereafter destroy diversity by its own change of citizenship.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/10/2002
• Decided 08/22/2002
• Published 08/22/2002

Judges

• Before CANBY, Jr. and RYMER, Circuit Judges, and BERTELSMAN, Senior District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lee S. Molof and Robert C. Vohl, Molof & Vohl, Reno, NV, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Paul H. Friedman, Terri L. Bowman, Dechert Price & Rhoads, Washington, DC, for the defendants-appellees.