Provident Life & Accident Insurance Company, Cross-Appellee v. Transamerica-Occidental Life Insurance Company, Cross-Appellant

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• stating that the parties’ failure to address whether the case presented a live controversy did “not ‘preclude th[e] court from uncovering fatal jurisdictional defects.’ ”
• “the jurisdictional limits under the Declaratory Judgment Act mirror those found [in the] Constitution ... ”
• although “no legal relationship existed between the insurers[,] [h]ad the insurers jointed the insured in their action, a definite and substantial controversy would exist” under Article III

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).