OWENS-ILLINOIS, INC. v. MEADE

No. 98-2218.

186 F.3d 435 (1999)

OWENS-ILLINOIS, INCORPORATED, Petitioner-Appellant, v. David L. MEADE; Jerry H. Adams; Charles Adkins; Geneva Adkins; Stanley Allen; Margaret Allen; Deretta Anderson; John Antobius; Josephine Arnett; James Ashcraft; Mary Ashcraft; Mary Ayersman; Elizabeth Ayoob; Herbert Baker; Sue Baker; Paul Bastin; Kathleen Bastin; Alfred Beccaloni; Florence Beeghley; Loren Smith; Bennie Bennett; William Bennett; Joy Bennett; Junior Biller; Margaret Biller; Zora Bogdan; Albert Boothe; Mildred Boothe; Minnie Bosley; Alice Boyce; Leslie Boyce; John Bradshaw; Virginia Bradshaw; John Bramer; Freeda Bramer; Earl Britton; Mary Britton; Roy Caldwell; June Caldwell; Paul Canterbury; Toni Canterbury; Samuel Capet; Robert Carpenter; Virginia Carpenter; Dolores Chiera; James Chiera; Ruth Clark; Leo Clevenger; Clacy Clevenger; Dorothy Cogar; Mary Coulter; Lanty Coulter; Mildred Cox; Robert Cox; Earnest Cross; George Cross; Athella Cross; Samuel Cutrone; Ruth Cutrone; Ella Davis; Oscar Davis; Francis Dean; Louise Dean; Glenn Dean; Ida Dean; Theodore Depolo; Theda Depolo; Agnes Derosa; Louis Derosa; Julie Diaz; James Dingess; Sonia Dingess; Lewis Dosier; Mary Dosier; Helen Doss; Felix Drazba; Novella Drazba; Kenneth Durst; Loretta Durst; Alberta Edgell; William Edgell; Cecil Elder; Alma Elder; John Emrick; Beverly Emrick; Joanne Erden; Ruth Fazio; James Fisher; Patricia Fisher; Frederick Fleming; Lois Fleming; Clydean Flohr; George Flohr; James Floyd; Bettie Floyd; Carl Frederick; Cleo Frederick; Charles Freeman; Mary Freeman; Eules Freeman; Emogene Freeman; Alphonse Genin; Helen Genin; Madeline Gooch; Melvin Gooch; Charles Goodnight; Carmela Gray; James Gray; David Griffith; Glordia Grindo; Danna Harris; Francis Harris; Florence Harris; Aubrey Harris; Jimmie Hickman; Mary Hickman; Edna Hicks; Shirley Hileman; William Hinter; Mary Hinter; Roger Holmes; Sara Holmes; Kenneth Hurst; Betty Hurst; Carole Martin Hutson; Raymond Insani; Harold Johns; Mary Johns; Garland Johnston; Blanche Johnston; Helen Jones; Samuel Kelly; Helen Kelly; 2 Elizabeth Kendrick; John Kendrick; Delbert Kincaid; Pauline Kincaid; Harold Knight; George Kopshina; Frances Kopshina; Marley Landes; Vola Landes; Thomas Langford; Lois Langford; Casey Lasko; Josephine Lasko; Esther Leeson; Sam Leroy; Barbara Leroy; Kenneth Lowther; Patricia Lowther; Pete Male; Joe Mancuso; Virginia Mancuso; Lowell Mangus; Kathleen Mangus; Marlo Manzo; Eudizia Manzo; Mary Marsh; Bernard Marshall; Sam Mazza; Mary McElwain; Robert McElwain; Charles Mealey; Ethel Michna; Adam Michna; Danny Micklich; Judith Micklich; James Mooney, Jr.; Bonnie Morgan; Karen Morris; Patrick Morris; Vincent Nash; Francis Nash; Melvin Norman; Constance Norman; Louise Nutter; Goff Nutter; Branty Pettigrew; Elizabeth Pettigrew; Donald Plivelich; Ted Poe; Diane Poe; Harry Popp; Alvena Popp; John Ridenour; Beatrice Ridenour; Paul Roberts; Kathleen Roberts; James Romine; Bernice Romine; Conrad Ross; Dominick Salentro; Margaret Salentro; Wilsie Sandy; William Sandy; Rance Seabolt; Melva Seabolt; James Seccuro; Frank Secreto; Mary Secreto; 3 Lyall Sine; Sarah Sine; Hershel Sisson; Josephine Sisson; Jackie Skinner; Doris Skinner; Lillie Slobadzian; Andrew Slobadzian; Bernadine Snider; Gene Somers; Alice Somers; Jack Stanley; Janice Stanley; Harold Stocking; Velma Stocking; Draper Strader; Kay Strader; Robert Swain; Addison Swisher; Betty Swisher; Anthony Talerico; Lucy Talerico; Willard Tallman; Yvonna Tallman; Cledith Taylor; Carol Taylor; Dallas Taylor; Mabel Taylor; Beverly Tenda; Carl Tenda; Chester Tharp; Carol Tharp; William Thaxton; Betty Thaxton; James Torman; Galena Torman; Harriet Trent; Sophia Trovato; Charles Trovato; Betty Tuttle; Olive Utt; William Utt; Earl Vance; Katherine Vance; Harry Vandergrift; Thomas Veltri; Mary Jane Veltri; Arnold Vincent; Grace Vincent; Denton Vincent; Carolyn Vincent; Roger Wade; Virginia Wade; Rally Walters; Annetta Walters; Eloise Ware; Henry Weimer; Betty Weimer; James Wilcoxen; Helen Wilcoxen; Beatrice Williams; Charles Williams; James Williamson; Mary Williamson; Melvin Williamson; Elizabeth Wilson; Donald Wilson; Jack Wilson; Sarah Wilson; 4 Harvey Wolfe, Gwendolyn Wolfe; Martha Wright; Harold Wright; Georgia Yoho; Orie Young; Francis Zebley, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: August 2, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: William Clifford Wood, Jr., Robert Bruce Shaw, Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough, L.L.P., Columbia, SC, for Appellant. Elliott William Harvit, Harvit & Schwartz, L.C., Charleston, West Virginia, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Robert O. Meriwether, Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough, L.L.P., Columbia, South Carolina; David K. Hendrickson, Peter B. King, Hendrickson & Long, P.L.L.C., Charleston, WV, for Appellant.

Before ERVIN, Circuit Judge, VOORHEES, United States District Judge for the Western District of North Carolina, sitting by designation, and FABER, United States District Judge for the Southern District of West Virginia, sitting by designation.


Affirmed by published opinion. Judge ERVIN wrote the opinion, in which Judge VOORHEES and Judge FABER joined.

OPINION

ERVIN, Circuit Judge:

Owens-Illinois, Inc. ("Owens-Illinois") appeals a district court ruling dismissing its Petition to Compel Arbitration and two related motions for lack of jurisdiction because the parties to the motion were not completely diverse. Owens-Illinois argues that, even if the parties to the other motions filed simultaneously...

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