Ten Fong Craig, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of William Henry Craig Deceased v. Atlantic Richfield Co.

How courts have described this case

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• “[T]he case involved a single foreign plaintiff... and numerous foreign defendants (in addition to U.S. defendants), thereby defeating diversity.”
• \The definition of 'agent' is broader under the Hopson/Sinkler doctrine than under the common law.\
• “[T]he case involved a single foreign plaintiff . . . and numerous 18 foreign defendants (in addition to U.S. defendants), thereby defeating diversity.”
• \The plain language of the Jones Act gives a plaintiff the option of maintaining an action at law with the accompanying right to a jury trial. The Act makes no mention of a defendant.\
• Under § 1332(a)(2) complete diversity was lacking where “the case involved a single foreign plaintiff . . . and numerous foreign defendants (in addition to U.S. defendants).”
• “The plain language of the Jones Act gives a plaintiff the option of maintaining an action at law with the accompanying right to a jury trial. The Act makes no mention of a defendant.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).