Legal Opinion
Fritts v. Niehouse
District Court, W.D. Missouri
Decided September 17, 1984No. 83-4324-CV-C-5PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
SCOTT O. WRIGHT, Chief Judge.
Presently pending before the Court is defendant Niehouse’s motion to dismiss Count V of the first amended complaint. Counts I through IV, asserted solely by plaintiff Charles Fritts, involve a § 1983 claim as well as pendent state law claims for assault, battery, and false imprisonment. Count V is a loss of consortium claim asserted solely by Charles Fritts’s wife, Joyce Fritts.-
The difficult legal issue presented here is whether the Court has subject matter jurisdiction over Joyce Fritts's consortium claim. The jurisdictional bases of Charles Fritts’s…
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