By: Derek Hawkins//August 1, 2017//
7th Circuit Court of Appeals
Case Name: Saskatchewan Mutual Insurance Co., v. CE Design, LTD.
Case No.: 15-3332
Officials: WOOD, Chief Judge, and MANION and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.
Focus: Jurisdiction
Saskatchewan Mutual Insurance (SMI) is trying to enforce a Canadian judgment against CE Design in federal court. That judgment resulted from CE Design’s un‐ successful effort to enforce an earlier Illinois judgment against SMI in Saskatchewan. The question before us is whether the federal courts—the third set of tribunals that have played host to this decade‐long legal battle—have jurisdiction over the latest round. We conclude that the answer is no—an outcome that is especially appropriate given the comity concerns that pervade this litigation.
Neither CAFA nor conventional diversity jurisdiction empowers us to hear this matter, and so we AFFIRM the judgment of the district court dismissing this case for lack of subject‐ matter jurisdiction.
Affirmed