United States Second Circuit

District Court's dismissal of an ERISA complaint and a state-law cross-claim, both for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, are vacated, where the complaint, on its face, seeks relief under ERISA and neither of the exceptions enumerated in Bell v. Hood, 327 U.S. 678, 681-82 (1946) applies.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/14/2003
• Published 02/14/2003

Judges

• B.D. PARKER, JR., Circuit Judge., Before:  LEVAL, CALABRESI, and B.D. PARKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Edgar Pauk, New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellant Mary W. Carlson.


• For Appellees:
  
• Randi F. Knepper, Del Mauro, Digiaimo & Knepper, P.C., New York, NY, for Defendant-Cross-Claimant-Appellee Principal Financial Group., Andrew Wilson, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, New York, NY (Bruce D. Angiolillo, on the brief),for Defendant-Cross-Defendant-Appellee Eileen Carlson.