Diversity Jurisdiction Alleged On Information And Belief.

Plaintiff filed an action in federal court asserting federal diversity jurisdiction.  The trial court dismissed it without leave to amend because plaintiff failed to allege the citizenship of any of the defendants who are limited liability companies. The court did not accept a proposed amended complaint because plaintiff pled its jurisdictional allegations on information and belief. The Ninth Circuit reversed and remanded, stating in part that “the district court should not have dismissed the complaint for failure to plead allegations of citizenship affirmatively and on knowledge, rather than on information and belief, when the necessary information was not reasonably available to [plaintiff].” (Carolina Casualty Insurance Co. v. Team Equipment, Inc. (Ninth Cir.; February 4, 2014) 741 F.3d 1082.)