ALVAREZ ET AL.

v.

PAN AMERICAN LIFE INSURANCE CO.

Citator

Cited By (29 total)

• Zahn v. Int'l Paper Co., 414 U.S. 291 (U.S. 1973)
  …f several plaintiffs had a sufficiently large claim and all other plaintiffs were dismissed from the suit.9 Moreover, [*301] the Court cited with approval the decision in Alvarez v. Pan American Life Insurance Co., 375 F. 2d 992 (CA5), cert. denied, 389 U. S. 827 (1967), which was decided after the 1966 amendments to Rule 23 and which involved a class action with only one member of the class having a claim sufficient to satisfy § 1332. Only that claim was held within the jurisdiction of the District Court.…

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• Snyder v. Harris, 394 U.S. 332 (U.S. 1969)
  …meet the statutory test of jurisdiction and the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, following a somewhat similar decision by the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Alvarez v. Pan American Life Insurance Co., 375 F. 2d 992, cert. denied, 389 U. S. 827 (1967), affirmed. 390 F. 2d 204 (1968). [*334] In No. 117, Otto R. Coburn, a resident of Kansas, brought suit in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas against the Gas Service Company, a corporation marketing natural gas in Kans…
• Almenares v. Wyman, 453 F.2d 1075 (2d Cir. 1971)
  …oversy requirement in a situation where aggregation is not allowable. But these cases involve interpretations of the jurisdictional statutes and not of Rule 23. See Alvarez v. Pan American Life Ins. Co., 375 F. 2d 992, 996-97 (5 Cir.), cert, denied, 389 U.S. 827, 88 S.Ct. 74, 19 L.Ed.2d 82 (1967); Zahn v. Int’l Paper Co., 53 F.R.D. 430 (D.Vt.1971), leave to appeal granted. We express no view on this subject since in the instant ease, no independent basis for jurisdiction over the class action was required.…