Bernie Bierman v. Tampa Electric Company, and Western Continental, Inc.

This lawsuit is the third of three actions concerning the same claim for relief. Plaintiff Bierman filed the first action against Tampa Electric Company [TECO] on June 21, 1973, in federal district court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Bier-man filed the second action on July 23, 1974, in the Middle District of Florida. After the first action was dismissed for lack of jurisdiction over the defendant and while an appeal from that dismissal was pending to the Fifth Circuit, the parties requested the Court to stay the action pending the resolution of the appeal in the first action. On…