Opinion ID: 770968
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: The Agreements Between Defendants And Dead Sea

Text: 21 On the day that Dead Sea was required to stipulate to foreign judgment, Defendants and Dead Sea entered into a pair of agreements which together allocated their joint liability in the event of an adverse judgment. 19 Those agreements stipulated Dead Sea's maximum percentage market share liability in each foreign country. In no country was that share greater than 2.5%. 22 As soon as Plaintiffs got word of the existence of the agreements, they filed a motion for relief from final judgment, pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(2), arguing that Defendants (1) neverintended to prosecute their claims against Dead Sea and (2) joined Dead Sea only to gain entry into federal court. Plaintiffs asked the district court to remand the entire matter to state court or, in the alternative, to sever the third-party claims and remand the underlying ones. The district court denied Plaintiffs' motion.