Earl Berry v. Jimmy McLemore Town of Maben, Mississippi and New Hampshire Insurance Co., Garnishee-Appellees

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• “It is black letter law that: ‘the jurisdiction of a court is not exhausted by the rendition of judgment, but continues until that judgment is satisfied.’”
• \We can find no case where a court held that it had ancillary jurisdiction to consider claims in a new and independent action merely because the second action sought to satisfy or give additional meaning to an earlier judgment.\
• “We can find no case where a court held that it had ancillary jurisdiction to consider claims in a new and independent action merely because the second action sought to satisfy or give additional meaning to an earlier judgment.”
• “Thus, since any jurisdiction that this court had in [the first case] is not available to this court in the instant actions, we must find an independent basis for federal jurisdiction over these garnishment actions or else dismiss the suggestions of garnishment.”
• “Thus, since any jurisdiction that this court had in [the first case] is not available to this court in the instant actions, we must find an independent basis for federal jurisdiction over these garnishment actions or else dismiss the suggestions of garnishment.”

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