Legal Opinion

Galt G/S v. JSS Scandinavia

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Decided April 27, 1998No. 97-15356PublishedCited by 378 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

REA, District Judge:

Third-Party Defendant Safeway Stores, Inc. appeals the district court’s exercise of diversity-based subject matter jurisdiction after (1) dismissing dispensable non-diverse parties and (2) aggregating the principal claim amount with the projected attorneys’ fees. Safeway also appeals the grant of summary judgment in favor of Third-Party Plaintiff Hapag-Lloyd, A.G. on its equitable indemnity claim. We affirm the district court’s judgment in its entirety.

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In 1987, Safeway placed an order with International Trading Co. (“ITC”), a meat importer, for 35,647 pounds of Danish…

2Cases cited13 opinions

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  4. E. L. White, Inc. v. City of Huntington BeachCalifornia Supreme Court · 1978
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3Cited by378 opinions

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