First State Insurance v. Western Investment & Development Corp.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “[I]t is fundamental that an intervening claim cannot confer subject matter jurisdiction over the action it seeks to join.”
• defendants sought “to close down the Center and prevent the performance of abortions”
• “The question of subject matter jurisdiction must be confronted at the threshold of the case.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).