Shirley Franzel and Fred Franzel v. Kerr Manufacturing Company

ALAN E. NORRIS, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs, Shirley and Fred Franzel, appeal a judgment in favor of defendant, Kerr Manufacturing Company, on various employment related claims. Because the overriding issue on appeal concerns the subject-matter jurisdiction of the district court after removal of the claims from a state court, an issue which was not raised before the trial court and has not been directly addressed in our circuit, we discuss it below. All other issues raised by the appeal are addressed in an unpublished appendix to this opinion. [Editor’s Note: Appendix has been omitted from…