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PAYPHONE LLC v. BROOKS FIBER COMMUNICATIONS OF RHODE ISLAND

No. 00-024L.

126 F.Supp.2d 175 (2001)

PAYPHONE LLC, Plaintiff, v. BROOKS FIBER COMMUNICATIONS OF RHODE ISLAND; Cable & Wireless, Inc., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Rhode Island.

January 3, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John D. Deacon, Medeiros & Sanford, Inc., Providence, RI, for Plaintiff.

Benjamin V. White, III, Vetter & White, Providence, RI, for Defendant Brooks Fiber Communications of Rhode Island.

James McKay, Todd D. White, Adler Pollock & Sheehan, Providence, RI, for Defendant Cable & Wireless, Inc.

DECISION AND ORDER

LAGUEUX, District Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of United States Magistrate Judge David L. Martin denying plaintiff's motion to remand this case to state court. The issue presented is whether a subsidiary corporation may pierce its own corporate veil in order to create diversity jurisdiction by attributing the great-grandparent corporation's principal place of business to itself. For the reasons that follow, this Court...

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