Jamison v. Schneider

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER OF REMAND

THEIS, District Judge.

This case presents the interesting question, apparently unsettled in this circuit, of whether a third-party defendant can effect the removal of an entire case from a state to a federal court, when the original plaintiff and the third-party plaintiff are citizens of the same state, when no federal question is involved, and when the third-party plaintiff and the third-party defendant are embroiled in a controversy whose value allegedly exceeds $10,000. The facts are not particularly complex and will, therefore, be recited in some detail.

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