Garza v. National American Insurance

RULING ON MOTIONS

JOHN V. PARKER, Chief Judge.

By ruling dated September 10, 1992, the parties to this action were directed to ad dress the issue of whether this court’s diversity jurisdiction over Jack Garza’s claim (which presumably exceeds $50,000) would allow the exercise of supplemental jurisdiction over the claims of his family members (which do not appear to independently meet the jurisdictional amount) under the recently enacted supplemental jurisdiction statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1367, which became effective on December 1, 1990. 1 Because subject matter jurisdiction is a threshold issue, the…