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· 12/7/1964

Meckler v. New York

Citations

  • 379 U.S. 938

How courts have described this case

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  • declining to realign parties where there was a bona fide dispute between diverse parties
  • parties’ alignment for jurisdictional purposes “has to be determined from the ‘principal purpose of the suit,’ and the ‘primary and controlling matter in dispute.’”

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