Laker Airways, Inc. v. British Airways, PLC

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that plaintiff’s antitrust claims necessarily require that a court evaluate the nonparty’s conduct in relation to plaintiff, which substantially implicates the nonparty’s interests
• finding that non-joined party would be prejudiced “by not being able to participate in a proceeding which would, at the very least, comment upon [its conduct]”
• “A party is considered ‘necessary’ to the action if the court determines either that complete relief cannot be granted with the present parties or the absent party has an interest in the disposition of the current proceedings.”
• “joint tort-feasors need not all be joined in one lawsuit”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).