Joseph Parks v. United States of America, and Third-Party v. Massachusetts Maritime Academy, Third-Party

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• holding that the Eleventh Amendment does not bar the United States from asserting an indemnity claim against a state
• “The law of tort indemnity offers no support for the third-party claim because tort indemnity does not apply where the party seeking indemnity was itself guilty of acts or omissions proximately causing the plaintiff’s injuries.”
• “It is well established that a defendant may, as third-party plaintiff, implead a party that the plaintiff could not sue directly, the claim against the third-party defendant inuring to the benefit of the third-party plaintiff and not to the original plaintiff”
• “It is well established that a defendant may, as third- party plaintiff, implead a party that the plaintiff could not sue directly, the claim against the third-party defendant inuring to the benefit of the third-party plaintiff and not to the original plaintiff.

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