PENDER v. BELL ASBESTOS MINES, LTD.

No. 4:96CV772 CDP.

46 F.Supp.2d 937 (1999)

Cynthia PENDER, Plaintiff, v. BELL ASBESTOS MINES, LTD., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Missouri, Eastern Division.

April 19, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter L. Floyd, Floyd Law Firm, P.C., St. Louis, MO, for Cynthia Pender, individually, and as next friend for James Nathanial Pender, Angela Ann Pender.

Walter L. Floyd, Floyd Law Firm, P.C., St. Louis, MO, Jeffrey Scott Pender.

Walter L. Floyd, Floyd Law Firm, P.C., St. Louis, MO, for Christopher Ray Pender.

Walter L. Floyd, Floyd Law Firm, P.C., St. Louis, MO, for Jennifer Rebecca Pender.

Thomas J. Magee, Partner, Moser and Marsalek, P.C., St. Louis, MO, for Bell Asbestos Mines, Ltd., A Foreign Corporation.

Reed W. Sugg, Sandberg and Phoenix, St. Louis, MO, for Asbestos Corporation, Ltd., A Foreign Corporation.

Raymond R. Fournie, Armstrong Teasdale, LLP, St. Louis, MO, for Abex Corporation, A Delaware Corporation.

Donald L. James, Beth Kamp Veath, Brown and James, P.C., St. Louis, MO, for Allied-Signal, Inc., A Successor in interest to suc Allied Corporation suc Bendix Corporation.

John R. Halpern, Teresa A. McNail, Goldstein and Price, L.C., St. Louis, MO, for Wagner Electric Corporation, A Delaware Corporation.

Joseph B. McGlynn, Jr., Maureen A. McGlynn, McGlynn & McGlynn, St. Louis, MO, for Chrysler Corporation, Individually and as successor in interest to suc Jeep/Eagle Corp. suc American Motors Corporation.

Chuck N. Chionuma, Chionuma and Associates, P.C., Kansas City, MO, for Ford Motor Company, A Delaware Corporation.

John D. Warner, Jr., Partner, Kortenhof and Ely, St. Louis, MO, Gary E. Wiseman, Thomas J. Noonan, P.C., St. Louis, MO, for General Motors Corporation, A Delaware Corporation.

Edward J. Szewczyk, Donovan and Rose, Belleville, IL, for Elgin Sweepers, An Illinois Corporation.

Steven B. Moore, Jonathan E. Broz, Rasmussen & Barton, Kansas City, MO, for Rapid American Corporation, Individually and as successor in interest to suc Philip Carey Corporation.

Gary P. Paul, Brinker and Doyen, Clayton, MO, for Morton International, Inc.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

PERRY, District Judge.

This matter is before the Court on plaintiff's motion to remand the case to state court. The Court concludes that it lacks subject-matter jurisdiction for two alternative reasons: first, a non-diverse defendant remains in this case as a matter of substantive Missouri law; second, and alternatively, even if the non-diverse defendant does not remain, its dismissal was not because of any "voluntary" act of...

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