Surprise v. GTE Service Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• holding the state law claims did not “predominate” when the resolution of the federal claim was not dependent upon the outcome of the state law claims
• “Although these claims are grounded on separate legal theories of liability, they all arise out of an ‘interlocking series of transactions’ related to Plaintiffs’ termination . . . and thus ‘substantially derive from the same facts.’ ”

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