Legal Opinion
Everett/Charles Contact Products, Inc. v. Gentec
District Court, D. Rhode Island
Decided August 11, 1988No. Civ. A. 88-0086-LPublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
LAGUEUX, District Judge.
This matter presently is before the Court on defendant Gentec’s motion to dismiss for failure to join an indispensible party under Fed.R.Civ.P. 19(b) and under the doctrine of forum non conveniens. The motion presents the Court with two issues to decide: (1) whether defendant Gassner, whose presence defeats the complete diversity of citizenship requirement of 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a), is an indispensible party to the remainder of the suit against defendant Gentec; and (2) whether it would be more appropriate for the courts of France to resolve this…
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