Dresser Industries, Inc. v. Underwriters At Lloyd's Of London

How courts have described this case

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• holding that diversity jurisdiction exists under Section 1331(a)(3) over “a suit between diverse [U.S.] citizens when, in addition to those citizens, aliens appear as both plaintiffs and defendants”
• stating that “the international relations concerns remain” and “the presence of aliens on both sides of the controversy heightens those federal concerns”
• distinguishing § 1332(a)(2), which requires complete diversity, from § 1332(a)(3), which does not
• local bias concerns are “understandably allayed when that [diverse] party is joined with a citizen from the forum state.”
• “[S]ection 1332(a)(2) only grants jurisdiction in cases between aliens and citizens. Cases between aliens on one side and aliens and citizens on the other, therefore, do not fit the jurisdictional pigeonhole.”
• “[S]ection 1332(a)(2) only grants jurisdiction in cases between aliens and citizens. Cases between aliens on one side and aliens and citizens on the other, therefore, do not fit the jurisdictional pigeonhole.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).