Legal Opinion
Baker v. Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided May 27, 2004No. Nos. 02-5385, 02-5415, 02-5455PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COOK, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs brought this products liability action in Kentucky state court against the manufacturers of allegedly defective respiratory masks. After defendants removed the action to federal court on the basis of diversity jurisdiction, the district court granted the motion to intervene of the Kentucky Special Fund, a state agency charged with administering health benefits to coal miners who develop pneumoconiosis, a progressive lung disease. Deciding that the Special Fund is an arm of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and that the Special Fund’s intervention therefore destroyed…
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