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· 1/25/1984

Federal Case

Citations

  • 726 F.2d 972

How courts have described this case

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

  • considering, among other factors, the federal policy interests in supplemental jurisdiction
  • “judicial reality” is to dispose of multiple claims originating from “common nucleus of operative fact” in a single action
  • district court had supplemental jurisdiction to consider defendant’s state-law counterclaim because key factual question “implicate[d] the entire factual matrix”
  • “[C]ompulsory counterclaims which are otherwise purely state-law claims are nonetheless ancillary to an underlying federal claim, and may be brought in federal court without an independent jurisdictional basis.”

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