Simmons v. Skyway of Ocala

ORDER

BOWEN, District Judge.

Defendant Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation, an Oklahoma corporation, moves the Court to dismiss these consolidated actions, CV683-54 and CV683-63, for want of jurisdiction. Both cases are wrongful death actions arising out of the same occurrence, an airplane crash in which the plaintiffs’ daughter was killed. The parties are identical in both suits; the only distinction between them relevant to this ruling is that the second suit, CY683-63, arose in this Court one month after the first, on defendant Rockwell International’s petition for removal from the Superior…