Johnston v. St. Paul Fire and Marine Ins. Co.

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• noting that the terms “defendant” and “third-party defendant” “typically are understood as referring to distinct parties”
• “[Rjemoval by the principal defendant displaces the chosen forum of only one party, the principal plaintiff, while removal by a third-party defendant threatens to overcome the state-court preferences of both the principal plaintiff and the principal defendant.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).