Gary Reece v. Bank of New York Mellon

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “it is simply incorrect to say . . . residency establishes . . . citizenship for the purpose of diversity jurisdiction”
• explaining that use of the verb “to reside” is sufficient to establish citizenship within the state in which the party is said to reside
• noting that the term “resident” fails to establish federal diversity jurisdiction as opposed to the terms “citizen” or “reside”
• finding that the court “cannot satisfy ourselves that diversity jurisdiction is proper based solely on an allegation a party is (or was) a ‘resident’ of a particular state.”
• explaining that, because of “ambiguity” in the word resident, a court cannot determine that “diversity jurisdiction is proper based solely on an allegation a party is (or was) a ‘resident’ of a particular state”
• explaining that, because of “ambiguity” in the word resident, a court cannot determine that “diversity jurisdiction is proper based solely on an allegation a party is (or was) a ‘resident’ of a particular state”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).