Felton v. Girardy

How courts have described this case

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• finding that the definition of a coparty does not include non-parties
• “It seems clear that a coparty against whom a party can cross-claim is neither a non-party nor a party it formally opposes….”
• “A crossclaim need not be served upon a cross-defendant who is already is a party to the action and within the court’s jurisdiction; rather, ‘it is sufficient under Rule 5(b
• “In multiparty actions, courts have disagreed regarding whether parties on the same side, but not at the same level, of an action are ‘coparties’ that may cross- claim against each other.”
• “[S]uch construction ‘comports with the structure of the federal rules, which envision three types of claims that may be asserted by defendants’: Rule 13(a) counterclaims against opposing parties, Rule 14(a) third-party claims against non-parties, and Rule 13(g) cross-claims against coparties.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).