Michael Paul Garrett v. the State of Texas

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• stating that interpleader may be used to establish “orderly contest” for limited fund so as to prevent early claimants from securing “disproportionate slice”
• explaining that interpleader is a procedure to resolve competing claims to a single fund in a party’s control where the party fears exposure to multiple lawsuits relating to the fund
• only minimal diversity required for federal interpleader action
• time-of-filing rule \represents a policy decision\
• “the citizenship of the stakeholder is irrelevant”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).