United States Eighth Circuit

In a products liability action concerning an allegedly defective hormone replacement drug, the district court's orders denying plaintiffs' motion to remand and dismissing duplicative actions are reversed where the plaintiffs' alleged misjoinder to defeat diversity jurisdiction was not so egregious as to constitute fraudulent misjoinder.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/06/2010
• Published 01/06/2010

Judges

• BRIGHT, Circuit Judge., Before MURPHY, BRIGHT and RILEY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Martin Nebrida Buchanan, argued, San Diego, CA, for appellant., Howard B. Miller, Joseph C. Gjonala, on the brief, Los Angeles, CA, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• William Hoffman, argued, Washington, DC, for appellee., Michael Anthony Lindsay, Linda Susan Svitak, John Philip Borger, James Anderson O'Neal, Bridget Maria Ahmann, Carrie L. Hund, Amy R. Freestone, on the brief, Minneapolis, MN., Stephen Louis Urbanczyk, Grant Andrew Geyerman, John W. Vardaman, Frank Lane Heard, III, William Hoffman, on the brief, Washington, DC., Joseph Paul Thomas, Linda E. Maichl, Keny Carson Green, on the brief, Cincinnati, OH., Steven J. Glickstein, Alan Rothman, on the brief, New York, NY., G. Dawn Shawger, Alan R. Vickery, on the brief, Dallas, TX., for appellee.