Finley v. United States

If Aldinger v. Howard, 427 U. S. 1 (1976), required us to ask whether the Federal Tort Claims Act embraced “an affirmative grant of pendent-party jurisdiction,” ante, at 553, I would agree with the majority that no such specific grant of jurisdiction is present. But, in my view, that is not the appropriate question under Aldinger. I read the Court’s opinion in that case, rather, as requiring us to consider whether Congress has demonstrated an intent to exempt “the party as to whom jurisdiction pendent to the principal claim” is asserted from being haled into federal court. 427 U. S., at 16…