Baker v. Johnson & Johnson

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

MURPHY, District Judge:

I. Introduction

This case, which comes to the Court via removal from state court, is before the Court sua sponte on the issue of federal subject matter jurisdiction. See Johnson v. Wattenbarger, 361 F.3d 991, 992 (7th Cir.2004) (a district court’s “first duty in every suit” is “to determine the existence of subject-matter jurisdiction”); Asperger v. Shop Vac Corp., 524 F.Supp.2d 1088, 1091 (S.D.Ill.2007) (quoting Hay v. Indiana State Bd. of Tax Comm’rs, 312 F.3d 876, 879 (7th Cir.2002)) (reviewing sua sponte the allegations of federal subject matter…