Judy Breitman v. May Company California, a Division of the May Department Stores Company

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• finding an unincorporated “division of a corporation [to] not possess 14 the formal separateness” and thus to “not [be] an independent entity for jurisdictional 15 purposes.”
• affirming diversity jurisdiction existed because an unincorporated division did not possess independent citizenship
• “May Company has corporate operations in over thirty states. Because no one state contains a substantial predominance of the corporation’s business activities, the place of operations test inappropriate.”
• “[A] corporation is typically a citizen of two states for determining the existence of diversity jurisdiction: the state of incorporation and the state in which it has its principal place of business.”
• \a corporation is typically a citizen of two states for 15 determining the existence of diversity jurisdiction: the state of incorporation and the state 16 in which it has its principal place of business\
• “[A] corporation is typically a citizen of two states for determining the existence 19 of diversity jurisdiction: the state of incorporation and the state in which it has its principal place 20 of business.”

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