Pariani
Pariani v. Mead Johnson & Company, LLC
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS
EASTERN DIVISION
IN RE: ABBOTT LABORATORIES, et al., ) PRETERM INFANT NUTRITION PRODUCTS ) MDL No. 3026
LIABILITY LITIGATION )
) Master Docket No. 22 C 71 This Document Relates to: ) Removed California Cases1 ) Judge Rebecca R. Pallmeyer )
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
In this opinion, the court addresses motions to remand in six related cases within the multidistrict litigation. Each case was filed in California state court, removed to federal court by Defendant Abbott Laboratories, and transferred to this district by the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. Plaintiffs believe these cases should be remanded to state court for lack of federal subject-matter jurisdiction. Each Plaintiff, a California citizen, brings at least one claim against a California-based hospital—a fact that would appear to frustrate the requirement of complete diversity. Abbott nevertheless urges the court to disregard the nondiverse hospital defendants and retain these cases in the MDL. Citing the fraudulent joinder doctrine, Abbott contends that Plaintiffs do not state any viable claims against the…