Baker v. Murphy

OPINION AND ORDER

GIERBOLINI, District Judge.

This is a breach of contract case that should have been filed in the state forum. Instead, plaintiffs filed it in the U. S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and after more than a year of litigation regarding the jurisdiction of this Court the end of the real controversy among the parties is not yet in sight. The delay is of plaintiff’s own making. Three U. S. District Judges have intervened; two complaints and three amended complaints have been filed; and now we are compelled, in spite of the inordinate amount of this Court’s time…