HILDEBRAND v. LEWIS

No. CIV.A. 03-740-A.

281 F.Supp.2d 837 (2003)

Brenda J. HILDEBRAND, individually and derivatively on behalf of The Iron Works, Inc., Plaintiff, v. Pleasant A. LEWIS III, and The Iron Works, Inc., Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Virginia, Alexandria Division.

September 10, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kathleen Joanna Lynch Holmes, Richards McGettigan Reilly & West P.C., Alexandria, VA, for Plaintiff.

Edward Jay Tolchin, Fettmann, Tolchin & Majors P.C., Fairfax, VA, for Defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

ELLIS, District Judge.

This stockholder derivative action involves breach of fiduciary duty and conversion claims concerning a corporation jointly owned by feuding former spouses. The following threshold jurisdictional questions are presented:

(i) whether the judicially-created domestic relations exception to federal jurisdiction divests a federal court of jurisdiction where, as here, plaintiff, whose ownership interests...

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