Matovac v. United States

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• holding that third-party claims brought under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Rule 14, on which Rule 3:13 is based, must allege some liability on the part of the third-party defendant that is “in some way derivative of the main claim.”
• granting 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss a third-party complaint where the alleged liability was “neither derivative of, nor secondary to, the claim brought against” the third-party defendant

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