ORDER ON PETITION FOR REMOVAL AND MOTION TO DISMISS
KANE, District Judge.
Defendants have petitioned for removal. The petition includes a prayer for costs and fees. In addition, the individual defendants Smith and Robison have moved for dismissal.
28 U.S.C. § 1359 bars the district court from assuming subject matter jurisdiction over "a civil action in which any party, by assignment or otherwise, has been improperly or collusively made or joined...
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