State Farm Fire & Casualty Co v. Titeflex Corporation

Filing 8

MEMORANDUM ORDER. The court will deem the notice of removal to allege that State Farm is both incorporated in and has its principal place of business in Illinois unless State Farm represents otherwise in the case management report, which will be required by a separate order that sets a scheduling conference. Signed by Magistrate Judge Mark L Hornsby on 7/7/2017. (crt,Crick, S)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
WESTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA
SHREVEPORT DIVISION

STATE FARM FIRE & CASUALTY CO. CIVIL ACTION NO. 17-cv-0842
VERSUS

JUDGE HICKS

TITEFLEX CORPORATION

MAGISTRATE JUDGE HORNSBY

MEMORANDUM ORDER
State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. removed this case based on an assertion of
diversity jurisdiction. Its notice of removal acknowledges that a corporate party is
deemed a citizen of its state of incorporation and the state of its principal place of
business.
The notice alleges that defendant Titeflex is incorporated in Connecticut and
it has its principal place of business in Tennessee. State Farm alleges that it is
incorporated in Illinois, but State Farm does not identify the state in which its
principal place of business is located.
It has been stated in other cases that State Farm Fire & Casualty has its
principal place of business in Illinois. See, e.g., Roby v. State Farm Fire & Cas. Co.,
464 F.Supp. 2d 572, 574 (E.D. La. 2006). The court will deem the notice of removal
to allege that State Farm is both incorporated in and has its principal place of business

in Illinois unless State Farm represents otherwise in the case management report,
which will be required by a separate order that sets a scheduling conference.
THUS DONE AND SIGNED in Shreveport, Louisiana, this 7th day of July,
2017.