Curtis Fawvor v. Texaco, Inc., Defendant-Third-Party v. Foster Wheeler Corporation, Third-Party B & B Insulation, Inc., Defendant-Third-Party

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• holding that plaintiff’s negligence claim against an impleaded non-diverse third-party defendant required an independent basis for federal jurisdiction where the basis of jurisdiction in the original compliant was diversity
• “Rule 14 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure governs third-party practice. Under this rule, where there is diversity between the plaintiff and the defendant, the defendant may implead a third-party of the same citizenship as the plaintiff.”

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