U-Haul Company of Arizona v. Lee

1 WO 2 3 4 5 6 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA 8 9 U-Haul Company of Arizona, No. CV-20-00082-PHX-ROS 10 Plaintiff, ORDER 11 v. 12 Tammy Lee, et al., 13 Defendants. 14 15 Plaintiff U-Haul Company of Arizona filed this interpleader action hoping to 16 prevent a variety of separate tort suits that might be filed against it in Iowa, Texas, Arizona, 17 or elsewhere. The Supreme Court established in 1967 that U-Haul’s strategy is not an 18 appropriate use of the federal interpleader statute when potential tort claimants would 19 prefer to proceed elsewhere.…