Foslip Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Metabolife International, Inc.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER REGARDING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION TO REMAND AND MOTIONS TO DISMISS BY DEFENDANTS JOSEPH M. ELLIS, JR., ST & T, INC., AND MICHAEL J. SCOTT

BENNETT, Chief Judge.

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Rather fail ivith honor than succeed by fraud.

—Sophocles

Each side here accuses the other of succeeding by fraud: The plaintiffs claim they were induced into an inequitable settlement of a prior lawsuit by the defendants’ fraudulent misrepresentations and non-disclosures of the financial status of a disputed business, and the defendants contend that the plaintiffs have fraudulently joined one of the…