Xie
Palm Street Capital LLC v. Xie
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 5 PALM STREET CAPITAL LLC, and others, Case No. 22-cv-1932 NC Plaintifts, ORDER SUGGESTING V. ADDITIONAL ISSUE TO ADDRESS
CONCERNING SUBJECT MATTER
CAIXING XIE, JURISDICTION Defendant. 11
= At Dkt. No. 143, this Court ordered the parties to show cause concerning subject 0 v || matter jurisdiction. The Court suggests that in their briefs the parties also should address
|| the joinder feasibility factors in Fed. R. Civ. P. 19(b). If the Court determines that one or
& 16 || more plaintiffs do not have diverse citizenship from the defendant, then under Fed. R. Civ. || P. 21, one option is to drop a non-diverse, dispensable plaintiff. See Louisiana Mun. || Police Employees’ Retirement System v. Wynn, 829 F.3d 1048, 1057 (9th Cir. 2016); Sams 19 || v. Beech Aircraft Corp., 625 F.2d 273, 277 (9th Cir. 1980) (“Rule 21 grants a federal 20 || district or appellate…