Henson v. Ciba-Geigy Corporation

These consolidated appeals arise from two actions, both of which originally asserted various tort claims arising from Ciba-Geigy Corporation’s manufacture and sale of a chlorodimeform-based insecticide, Galecron. The principal issue presented is whether the district court had removal jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1441 and the All Writs Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1651, over a later action solely because prosecuting that action violated a settlement stipulation in an earlier action already before the court. We hold that it did not.

Background

The first of the two actions, Price v. Cibar-Geigy Corp., was…