In the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Watson Laboratories, Inc.; and Watson Pharma, Inc., defendants/appellants, v. Sharon G. Fontenot, on her own behalf and as tutor on behalf of her minor children, Gabriel Fontenot, Trent Fontenot, and Christen Fontenot, and Ashley Breaux, Eric Fontenot, and Courtney Fontenot, plaintiffs/appellees : on appeal from the United States District court for the Western District of Louisiana, Lafayette Division, Case no. 6:10-cv-00162 : reply brief of appellants /

On appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the issue presented is jurisdictional: whether the District Court properly exercised supplemental jurisdiction in allowing plaintiff to add certain medical malpractice defendants when doing so would destroy diversity-based jurisd...

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