BROMWELL v. MICHIGAN MUT. INS. CO.

No. 96-3181.

115 F.3d 208 (1997)

William David BROMWELL, Personal Representative of the Estate of Elizabeth Naomi Bromwell, Deceased; John Darrow, Sr., Personal Representative of the Estate of John Darrow, Jr., Deceased; and Ormand Keith Adams and Mitchell J. Cornwell, Personal Representatives of the Estate of Brian Kent Adams, Deceased; and Pete L. Wurm, Appellants, v. MICHIGAN MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY and Michigan Automobile Insurance Placement Company.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided June 6, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William A. Loftus (Argued), Shrager, McDaid, Loftus, Flum & Spivey, Philadelphia, PA, Daniel M. Berger, Berger Law Firm, Pittsburgh, PA, for Appellants.

L. John Argento, Michael F. Nerone, Stephen R. Mlinac (Argued), Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote, Pittsburgh, PA, for Appellees.

Before COWEN, ALITO, and ROSENN, Circuit Judges.


OPINION OF THE COURT

ROSENN, Circuit Judge.

This appeal, having wended a tortured procedural path to arrive finally at this court, raises an interesting issue concerning the extent of a federal court's jurisdiction: whether a federal district court, having previously dismissed an action for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction, could properly exert jurisdiction over an identical state court action removed to that federal court by the defendants on diversity...

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