U.S. DISTRICT COURT-WESTERN

CIVIL PRACTICE

Diversity • Fraudulent Joinder • Removal • Oil and Gas Lease • Lessee/Assignor Liability

Rice v. Chesapeake Energy Corp., PICS Case No. 12-1472 (W.D. Pa. Aug. 1, 2012) Hornak, J. (9 pages).

In this action involving the continued liability of the assignor of an oil and gas lease, defendant was not fraudulently joined; therefore, the court, finding incomplete diversity, remanded this action to state court. Motion to remand granted.