Does a federal judge have jurisdiction to hear a common law conversion action?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Gibson v. City of Seattle Department of Police, 472 F.2d 1220 (9th Cir. 1973):
The district court dismissed the action relative to the individual defendants for the additional reason that the plaintiff had a state cause of action for common law conversion. The denial of federal jurisdiction upon that ground was rejected in Monroe v. Pape, supra.
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