Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit February 4, 2004, 03-2379 (Motion Control Corporation v. Sick, Inc.)

LAY, Circuit Judge.

Motion Control Corporation (“MCC”) appeals the district court’s decision allowing removal of MCC’s Minnesota state law claim. The district court based its removal decision on the grounds that the claim was “factually interdependent” with, and therefore “ancillary” to, a case already pending before the federal district court. We hold that 28 U.S.C.