Erie Insurance Property and Casualty Company v. Moore

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY LOUISVILLE DIVISION Erie Insurance Property and Casualty Co. Plaintiff v. No. 3:19-cv-332-BJB Moore, et al. Defendants * * * * * OPINION AND ORDER This Court lacks jurisdiction under Article III of the U.S. Constitution to issue the declaratory judgment that Erie Insurance seeks against a culpable-but-absent driver, his passenger, a pro se truck owner, and four victims of a tragic wreck. The absent defendant, Shawn Welsh, led police on a deadly high-speed chase in a truck that he did not own and that Erie insured. During that chase,…