Legal Opinion
PAYPHONE LLC v. Brooks Fiber Communications of Rhode Island
District Court, D. Rhode Island
Decided January 3, 2001No. 00-024LPublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION AND ORDER
LAGUEUX, District Judge.
This is an appeal from an order of United States Magistrate Judge David L. Martin denying plaintiffs motion to remand this case to state court. The issue presented is whether a subsidiary corporation may pierce its own corporate veil in order to create diversity jurisdiction by attributing the great-grandparent corporation’s principal place of business to itself. For the reasons that follow, this Court concludes that it cannot. Accordingly, the appeal is sustained and the motion to remand is granted.
I. Background and Procedural History
Plaintiff…
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