Galva Foundry Company v. Ray F. Heiden

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• finding that the defendant had not changed his domicile, because his contacts with the new state did not establish his intent to live there indefinitely
• stating that the citizenship of an individual for diversity jurisdiction purposes is “the state of the individual’s domicile[]—the state he considers his permanent home” (internal citations omitted)
• finding defendant domiciled in Illinois where, for tax purposes, he had obtained a Florida driver’s license, registered to vote in Florida, and listed Florida as his permanent address on his taxes, but where “the center of gravity” of his life remained in Illinois
• a person cannot change domicile simply by “changing his . . . driver’s license . . . to opt in or out of federal diversity jurisdiction”
• a person cannot change domicile simply by “changing his . . . driver’s license . . . to opt in or out of federal diversity jurisdiction”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).