Case ID: f-appx_604/html/0209-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "D. MICHAEL FISHER, Circuit Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

CBS CORPORATION, Appellant, v. SCHINDLER ELEVATOR CORPORATION.
    No. 14-3397.
    United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.
    April 8, 2015.
    Frederick W. Bode, III, Esq., Brett W. Farrar, Esq., Michael P. Flynn, Esq., Steven W. Zoffer, Esq., Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote, Pittsburgh, PA, Shay Dvoretzky, Esq., Jones Day, Washington, DC, for Appellant.
    Roy A. Cohen, Esq., Porzio, Bromberg & Newman, Morristown, NJ, Stuart H. Sostmann, Esq., Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin, Pittsburgh, PA, for Schindler Elevator Corporation.
    Present: FISHER, HARDIMAN, ROTH, Circuit Judges.
   ORDER

D. MICHAEL FISHER, Circuit Judge.

The parties agree that the District Court did not have subject matter jurisdiction over this state-law breach , of contract action because diversity of citizenship never existed. Therefore, the District Court lacked the constitutional authority to “proceed at all in [this] cause.” . Ex parte McCardle, 74 U.S. (7 Wall.) 506, 514, 19 L.Ed. 264 (1868). On consideration whereof, it is now hereby

ORDERED and ADJUDGED by this Court that the judgment of the District Court entered June 26, 2014, be and the same is hereby VACATED and this case is REMANDED with instructions that the case be dismissed without prejudice.