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Nature of Suit Code: 110
Nature of Suit: Insurance
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Interpleader Action

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WO 

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

DISTRICT OF ARIZONA 

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 

 Plaintiff, 

v. 

Tyler Elliott; Shamus Stinson; a minor 

child, by and through his guardians 

Douglas and Judith Hardy, 

 Defendants. 

No. CV-07-220-PHX-SMM 

ORDER 

 Pending before the Court is the Motion of Plaintiff Metropolitan Life Insurance 

Company for Leave to Deposit Funds with the Court, Application for Order to Invest 

Funds, and Motion for Order of Issuance of Process to Claimants/Defendants and 

Restraining them From Instituting or Prosecuting Actions Regarding Property. (Dkt. 6.) 

Just cause appearing, 

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED GRANTING Plaintiff’s Motion for Leave to 

Deposit Funds with the Court, Application for Order to Invest Funds, and Motion for 

Order of Issuance of Process to Claimants/Defendants and Restraining them From 

Instituting or Prosecuting Actions Regarding Property. (Dkt. 6.) 

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IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Clerk of the Court accept the check of 

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in the sum of $521,000.00, plus any applicable 

interest (“Plan Benefits”), with respect to this interpleader action and the deposit said 

check into the Registry Account of the Court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2041. 

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, pursuant to Rule 1.13, Rules of Practice of the 

United States District Court for the District of Arizona, that the Clerk of the Court and/or 

the Financial Deputy shall invest the Plan Benefits so deposited in the Registry Account 

of this Court. 

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2361, that the Clerk of 

this Court shall issue its process directed to Tyler Elliott and Shamus Stinson, by and 

through his guardians Douglas and Judith Hardy, as “claimants,” and shall be addressed 

to and personally served upon them where each claimant resides or may be found, if the 

claimants do not agree to waiver of service under Rule 4(d), Fed. R. Civ. Proc. 

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2361, that said 

Claimants/Defendants, above-named, are hereby and herewith restrained from instituting 

or prosecuting any proceeding in any state or United States Court against MetLife, Bank 

of America, or the Plan with respect to the Plan Benefits. 

 Dated this 7th day of February, 2007. 

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