Legal Opinion

Trustees of Hackberry Baptist Church v. Womack

District Court, W.D. Virginia

Decided October 20, 2014No. Case No. 4:14-cv-00037Published

1Opinion of the Court

MEMORANDUM OPINION

JACKSON L. KISER, Senior District Judge.

The Trustees of Hackberry Baptist Church ("Plaintiff”) filed suit against Rhonda Dody Womack and Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company (collectively, “Defendants”) in the Circuit Court of Halifax County on June 27, 2014. (Not. of Removal ¶ 3, July 29, 2014.) Defendants removed the action to this Court on July 29, 2014.(M) Although both Plaintiff and Womack are residents of Virginia and are non-diverse for purposes of jurisdiction, Defendants argued in their Notice of Removal that Womack was fraudulently joined and thus her citizenship…

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