Citizens Mortgage Corp. v. Investors Mortgage Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• holding that complete diversity was lacking in a lawsuit between an alien and a citizen co- plaintiffs and an alien defendant
• holding that potentially inconsistent tort judgments in two separate suits arising from the same set of facts did not render a plaintiff in one case a necessary party to the other case
• concluding that § 1653 did not authorize an amendment to substitute a party who had standing to sue on behalf of an estate at the time the action was commenced
• observing that “[t]he standards for determining whether joinder must be ordered . . . are not the relative conveniences of the parties but those prescribed by Rule 19” (quotation omitted)
• finding that the requirement of complete diversity pertains to suits between foreign citizens, and that, as applied, it denies jurisdiction “in an action by an alien against citizens of a state and another alien”
• noting that federal courts have “consistently denied jurisdiction over suits between aliens”

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