Zeus Realty Group LLC v. 1032 N. Sycamore Owner (LA), LLC
Key Findings
- NewGen v. Safe Cig cited to demand mandatory remand, but the case held the opposite — that defective jurisdictional allegations are not fatal and courts should allow amendment.
- Ehrman v. Cox Communications cited to attack "information and belief" pleading. The case actually held such pleading is permissible and reversed a remand on those exact grounds.
- Four core federal jurisdiction statutes (28 U.S.C. §§ 1331, 1332, 1441, 1447) are paired with characterizations and quotes that do not match the statutory text.
- Kanter v. Warner-Lambert applied a corporate-citizenship test to an LLC dispute — a doctrinal mismatch that overextends its precedential reach.
Court Response
Disposition: TRO / preliminary injunction denied; complaint dismissed without leave to amend for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction.
The court's jurisdictional analysis relied on NewGen, LLC v. Safe Cig, LLC for the rule that an LLC must allege the citizenship of its members, and held the notice of removal "contains defective jurisdictional allegations." In footnote 1, the court separately observed that "Plaintiff's Motion includes citations to nonexistent cases and inaccurate quotations" and that defendant had suggested the filings were AI-generated, though the court resolved the case on jurisdictional grounds rather than adjudicating that issue.
Comparison: The Opine report on this page analyzed plaintiff's earlier Motion to Remand (a different filing from the TRO motion the court ruled on), where Opine flagged NewGen v. Safe Cig as a holding cited in reverse — plaintiff had cited NewGen to demand mandatory remand, when the case in fact stands for the rule that LLC jurisdictional allegations require member citizenship. The court's dismissal applied NewGen for that correct proposition.
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