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PICCIOTTO v. CONTINENTAL CAS. CO.

No. 06-2685.

512 F.3d 9 (2008)

Stefano PICCIOTTO, Judith Picciotto, Melita Picciotto, Athena Picciotto, and Foreign Car Center, Inc., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. CONTINENTAL CASUALTY COMPANY, Great Northern Insurance Company, Hartford Insurance Company and Twin City Fire Insurance Company, Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided January 7, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Richardson, with whom Stefano Picciotto, Judith Picciotto, Melita Picciotto, and Athena Picciotto, pro se, and James M. Shannon, were on brief, for appellants.

Scott D. Burke and Harvey Weiner, with whom Timothy O. Egan, Peabody & Arnold LLP, Morrison Mahoney LLP, Michael R. Byrne, and Melick, Porter & Shea LLP, were on brief, for appellees.

Before LIPEZ, Circuit Judge, SELYA, Senior Circuit Judge, and HOWARD, Circuit Judge.

LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.

This case requires us to consider the interrelationship of joinder and supplemental jurisdiction in a diversity case. The Picciotto family and their company, Foreign Car Center, Inc., ("the Picciottos"), appeal the dismissal of their complaint for failure to join an indispensable party. The district court found that Dana Casher, a citizen of Massachusetts, is a necessary and indispensable party in the Picciottos' suit against Casher's malpractice...

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