121415P.pdf   03/06/2013  George Donner  v.  Alcoa, Inc.
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  12-1415
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City   
   [PUBLISHED] [Bye, Author, with Gruender and Shepherd, Circuit Judges]
   Civil case - Civil Procedure. District court abused its discretion in
   granting plaintiff a voluntary dismissal without first addressing whether
   his purported basis for adding a defendant that destroyed diversity had a
   reasonable basis in law and fact; the court's own review of the stated
   basis for the voluntary dismissal leads to the conclusion that the claim
   against the diversity-destroying defendant had no reasonable basis in law;
   order granting voluntary dismissal is reversed and the case is remanded
   for further proceedings.