Commonwealth of Kentucky Transportation Cabinet v. Brown

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY CENTRAL DIVISION FRANKFORT ) COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY, ) TRANSPORTATION CABINET, ) Civil No. 3:24-cv-00026-GFVT ) Plaintiff, ) ) MEMORANDUM OPINION v. ) & ) WILLIE T. BROWN, et al., ORDER ) ) Defendants. *** *** *** *** A state is not a citizen for the purposes of diversity jurisdiction. Because Kentucky’s Transportation Cabinet represents an “alter ego” of Kentucky, the Court will GRANT the Plaintiff’s Request to Remand for Want of Jurisdiction. [R. 10]. I Willie Brown and Robert Watts are commercial truck drivers.1 [R. 1-1 at 1–2.]…