Ascot Specialty Insurance Co. v. A A Alpine Storage

Summary

The court directs AA Alpine Storage to amend its Diversity Jurisdiction Disclosure Statement. The order explains that an LLC's citizenship depends on the citizenship of all its members and requires the defendant to identify each member and allege citizenship through any applicable layers of entity ownership by May 1, 2026.

Holdings

1. An LLC's citizenship is determined by the citizenship of all of its members, not by its state of organization or principal place of business.
2. If an LLC's members are partnerships, LLCs, corporations, or other entities, their citizenship must be alleged under the rules applicable to that entity and traced through every layer of members or partners.
3. The relevant time for assessing citizenship is the date the complaint was filed.

Questions Presented

1. Whether AA Alpine Storage's disclosure adequately alleged the citizenship of every member of the LLC for purposes of establishing diversity jurisdiction.
2. What citizenship information must be disclosed when an LLC's members are themselves entities or when individual members' domiciles or membership interests have changed.

Disposition

other