Nixon v. Guzzetta

How courts have described this case

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

• “[Rule 20] does not provide a mechanism for a defendant to join parties, unless the defendant is asserting a crossclaim or counterclaim.”
• “The 19 language of Rule 20(a)(2) confirms that the rule is not a means for defendants to join 20 additional parties where the defendant has not asserted any counterclaims or 21 crossclaims.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).