Editing Interpleader (section)

=== Statutory interpleader===
* {{UnitedStatesCode|28|1335}} allows an individual with a stake which is, or may be, claimed by two or more adverse claimants, to interplead those claimants and bring them into a singular action.
* '''Jurisdiction''': Under {{UnitedStatesCode|28|2361}}, a person anywhere within the United States may be served by the stakeholder
* '''Diversity''': [[Diversity jurisdiction]] is satisfied as long as there are two claimants of different states {{USCSub|28|1335|a|1}}. For example, if you have three claimants, two of which are residents of Florida, and one from California, diversity would be satisfied. The diversity of the stakeholder, however, is irrelevant to the rule. This is known as minimal diversity and was held to be permissible under [[Article III of the United States Constitution#Section 2: Judicial power, jurisdiction, and trial by jury|Article III, § 2]] of the [[United States Constitution]], ''[[State Farm Fire and Cas. Co. v. Tashire]]'' {{ussc|386|523|1967|pin=530}}
* '''Amount in controversy''': The stake in the claim ([[amount in controversy]]) must be ''greater than or equal'' to $500 in value {{USCSub|28|1335|a}}, opposed to the Rule Interpleader requirement of any amount ''exceeding'' $75,000 in diversity based actions {{USCSub|28|1332|b}}. 
* '''Venue''': The venue for a Statutory Interpleader is in the Judicial District in which one of the claimants resides, {{usc|28|1397}}.
* '''Deposit''': A Statutory Interpleader action is commenced by the stakeholder who must initially deposit with the court, the [[amount in controversy]], or post a specific bond with the court, {{USCSub|28|1335|a|2}}. The stakeholder may, however, at trial claim they don't owe money to the claimants at all, since the action can be in the nature of interpleader.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Chafee|first=Zecheriah|title=Federal Interpleader Act of 1936|journal=Yale Law Journal|date=April 1936|volume=45|issue=6|pages=963–990|doi=10.2307/792068|jstor=792068|url=https://openyls.law.yale.edu/bitstream/20.500.13051/12648/2/47_45YaleLJ963_1935_1936_.pdf}}</ref> 
Such an action may be entertained although the titles or claims of the conflicting claimants do not have a common origin, or are not identical, but are adverse to and independent of one another. {{USCSub|28|1335|b}}.
 
* '''Injunction''': Once the statutory interpleader action is commenced, the court may restrict all claimants from starting or continuing any action which would affect the stake, make such injunction permanent, and discharge the stakeholder from liability. {{UnitedStatesCode|28|2361}}. Such [[injunction]] is not governed by Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Rule {{frcp|65}}.

The may claim language added in 1948 codification to [[Title 28 of the United States Code]] in the definitions of claim allow interpleader for unliquidated claims, such as multiple claimant to a [[liability insurance]] policy  injured in  an accident before they are reduced to judgment or settled, however the injunction may only restrain the claimants from suits making claims against the ''res'' not suits to liquidate the claim or against third parties.<ref>''State Farm Fire and Cas. Co. v. Tashire'' {{ussc|386|523|1967|pin=530}}</ref> The procedures for a Statutory Interpleader action are governed by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Rule 22(b).