Judge: Deleting Asbestos Claim Doesn’t Eliminate Federal Jurisdiction

(December 11, 2017, 2:27 PM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — The presence of a second defendant entitled to federal jurisdiction means that despite proper elimination of claims against a shipyard, an asbestos case will stay in federal court, a federal judge in Louisiana held Dec. 6 (Diane Pitre, et al. v. Huntington Ingalls Inc., et al., No. 17-7029, E.D. La., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 200355)....

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