Legal Opinion
Picciotto v. Continental Casualty Co.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 7, 2008No. 06-2685PublishedCited by 153 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.
This case requires us to consider the interrelationship of joinder and supplemental jurisdiction in a diversity case. The Picciotto family and their company, Foreign Car Center, Inc., (“the Picciot-tos”), appeal the dismissal of their complaint for failure to join an indispensable party. The district court found that Dana Casher, a citizen of Massachusetts, is a necessary and indispensable party in the Picciottos’ suit against Casher’s malpractice insurers and others for civil conspiracy. Because the Picciottos are also Massachusetts citizens, the district court dismissed…
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