Graham Spanier would like to be able to look into the state citizenship of Louis B. Freeh and his former firm to see if attempts to remove Spanier’s possible defamation case to federal court pass the diversity test.
In a brief filed Aug. 8 in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, Spanier, the ex-Penn State University president, requested that the court allow for “a limited jurisdictional discovery” to determine whether Freeh or the partners of his former firm, Freeh Sporkin & Sullivan, were Pennsylvania citizens when the action was filed.
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