Rotec Industries, Inc. v. Aecon Group, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• reasoning that a non-party must claim an interest in the subject matter to qualify as a necessary party
• denying Rule 12(b)(7) motion because “nothing in the record demonstrates that [the absent party] is claiming an interest in this action”
• “When the outsider is aware of the action and does not claim such an interest, courts typically will not second-guess the decision.”
• “On a Rule 12(b)(7) motion, the defendants have the burden of showing that the plaintiff has failed to join a necessary and indispensable party.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).