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Gore and Associates Management Company, Inc. v. SLSCO Ltd., et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, No. 23-1429 · judgment October 16, 2025


Certiorari denied · May 18, 2026
Pre-decision estimate: 2% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

Whether a federal court may dismiss a diversity action, years after filing, for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction based solely on the plaintiff’s inability to produce admissible evidence of the citizenship of nonparty assignors, absent any finding—or evidence—of a collusive or improper assignment under 28 U.S.C § 1359.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Anna Dorkas Torres
Wolfe Pincavage

For respondent
Salvador J. Antonetti-Stutts
O'Neil & Borges, LLC

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. May 18 2026
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Apr 22 2026
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/14/2026.
  3. Apr 21 2026
    Reply of petitioner Gore and Associations Management Company, Inc. filed. (Distributed)
  4. Apr 08 2026
    Brief of respondents SLSCO Ltd., et al. in opposition filed.
  5. Mar 20 2026
    Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including April 8, 2026.
  6. Mar 05 2026
    Motion to extend the time to file a response from March 9, 2026 to April 8, 2026, submitted to The Clerk.
  7. Jan 14 2026
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due March 9, 2026)