Cason v. Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority

GELPÍ, District Judge.

Plaintiffs-Appellants, Marisol Cason and Patricia Benavides (“Cason and Benavides”), filed a wrongful death suit against Defendants in the United States District Court in Puerto Rico. The Defendant-Appellee, Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (“PREPA”), challenged the District Court’s jurisdiction, arguing that an additional, non-diverse member of the decedent’s estate who was not made a party to the action, was indispensable, and that, in turn, his joinder destroyed the parties’ complete diversity.

The District Court agreed that the presence of this nondiverse absent…