Joinder question. We want to get as many claims and people joined together at once.
M was driving his car with 2 passengers: N and O. M’s steering fails (P is the MFG of the steering mechanism) and M hits Q. Then R then hits Q and M.
M is from California
N is from California
O is from Mississippi
P is from Iowa (incorporated and principle place of business there)
Q is from California
R is from Iowa
We want to add as many claims and parties at once for the case to be held in a California District Court. Who and what claims can be joined? Every claim will exceed the $75,000 requirement for diversity jurisdiction.
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Who's suing? Need more info on who's bringing suit
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Yeah, need to know who's suing who.mr.hands wrote:Who's suing? Need more info on who's bringing suit
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In this hypo it doesn't particularly matter who sues who. The goal is to get as many claims and parties into one suit as possible under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
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Without more information, this seems like a pretty straight forward permissive joinder issue. Under FRCP 20, the accident is the same transaction/occurence, and there are questions of law and fact that are common to all parties (tort liability).
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Uh yeah it does. We need diversity of citizenship. If we have california on both sides we'll have some problemsfl41 wrote:In this hypo it doesn't particularly matter who sues who. The goal is to get as many claims and parties into one suit as possible under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
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