Pasco International (London) Ltd. v. Stenograph Corporation, Energy Absorption Systems and Data General Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “potential indemnitors have never been considered indispensable parties, or even parties whose joinder is required if feasible.’”’
• holding that “potential indemnitors have never been considered indispensable parties, or even parties whose joinder is required if feasible.”
• analyzing the prejudicial effect of an “unfavor- able judgment” under Rule 19
• “In any event, the prospect of further litigation between Pasco and Croxford is not sufficiently significant to make Croxford an indispensable party.”
• availability of an alternative remedy, standing alone, is not sufficient for dismissal, and some additional interest of the absent person must be found to outweigh the plaintiff’s choice of forum
• even though joint tort-feasors are the “class of parties with claims most likely to lead to” further litigation, they are not indispensable parties; “the possibility of a subsequent suit based on [the joint tortfeasor] relationship was not an eventuality that Rule 19 was designed to avoid”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).