· 2/7/1986
Ihedioha Eze v. Yellow Cab Company of Alexandria, Va., Inc.
Citations
- 782 F.2d 1064
- 251 U.S. App. D.C. 206
- 1986 U.S. App. LEXIS 21604
How courts have described this case
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- noting that 28 U.S.C. § 1332 requires complete diversity
- plaintiffs had abundant notice of the jurisdictional defect urged in support of motion to dismiss and district court's dismissal of the complaint was proper
- “[U]nder long-held precedent, diversity must be ‘complete.’. . . A diversity suit, in line with the Strawbridge rule, may not be maintained in federal court by an alien against a citizen of a state and a citizen of some other foreign country.”
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Judges: Edwards, Ginsburg, Fairchild, Seventh
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