H. Keith Zahn v. International Paper Company

(dissenting) :

With deference, it seems to me that the majority reads the Supreme Court’s decision in Snyder v. Harris, 394 U.S. 332 (1969), for all it might be worth, rather than for the least it has to be worth. More significantly, the majority decision here ignores the well-established principle that if a case is properly in a federal court, that court has subject matter jurisdiction over the case or controversy in its entirety and therefore can adjudicate related claims of ancillary parties who have no independent jurisdictional grounds.

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