Renee v. Sisters Clarke Limited Liability Company
- Analisa Torres
- 1:25-cv-06714
- U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
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In Ciara Renee v. Sisters Clarke, Judge Torres ordered Renee to amend her complaint with citizenship details needed to establish diversity jurisdiction.
Ciara Renee must provide additional citizenship allegations about the defendants’ members and partners; the defendants and the continuation of the case are affected by whether complete diversity is adequately alleged.
What happened
Ciara Renee v. Sisters Clarke Limited Liability Company involves Renee’s lawsuit against several defendants, including two limited liability companies and P3 Productions. She relies on diversity jurisdiction, which allows certain cases involving citizens of different states in federal court.
The court explained that the complaint must identify the citizenship of every member of the limited liability companies. If P3 Productions is a partnership, the complaint must similarly identify the citizenship of each partner, including required information for any corporate entities.
Judge Torres ordered Renee to amend the complaint by September 22, 2025. The court warned that if the amended complaint does not show complete diversity, it will dismiss the complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction.
The detailed version
- Renee v. Sisters Clarke Limited Liability Company · No. 1:25-cv-06714
- Analisa Torres
- Aug. 18, 2025
Background
Ciara Renee brought this action under the court’s diversity subject-matter jurisdiction, citing 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a). The defendants include Sisters Clarke Limited Liability Company, Make Way Broadway Limited Liability Company, National Artists Management Company, Inc., Alecia Parker, P3 Productions a/k/a P Three Productions, and Samuel Lopez.
Jurisdictional issue
The court stated that if Sisters Clarke, LLC, and Make Way Broadway, LLC, are limited liability companies as their names and the complaint indicate, the complaint must allege the citizenship of each member. For members that are natural persons, it must allege their citizenship; for members that are corporations, it must provide their places of incorporation and principal places of business. The court likewise stated that if P3 Productions is a general partnership, the complaint must allege the citizenship of each partner, using the same type of information for any corporate partners.
Order
The court ordered Renee to amend the complaint by September 22, 2025, to allege the citizenship of the defendants’ members. The order states that if Renee fails to allege complete diversity, the complaint shall be dismissed for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction. The order did not decide the underlying claims.
Judge
The order was issued and signed by Analisa Torres, United States District Judge.
Read the full 1-page opinion on CourtListener, the free public archive maintained by the Free Law Project.