Source: https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/339/472/1460592/
Timestamp: 2019-04-20 18:49:03+00:00

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W. Jiles Roberts, Houston, Tex., for plaintiff.
Henry P. Giessel, Talbert, Giessel & Stone, Houston, Tex., for defendant.
Plaintiff, a citizen of Texas, has filed this suit seeking recovery in excess of $10,000.00 as the only beneficiary of her deceased ten-year-old son's estate. Plaintiff's son sustained personal injuries resulting in his death as he rode his bicycle on a Houston, Texas, street on June 26, 1969. The defendant is a Greek seaman who was born in Egypt and who also carries a British passport. The defendant has legally lived in Houston *473 as a permanent resident since 1959 and holds a "green card" from the U.S. Immigration Service. The defendant has never applied for nor received a status of naturalized United States citizen.
"(1) citizens of different States;"
"(2) citizens of a State, and foreign states or citizens or subjects thereof." 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a) (2).
Unfortunately, there is a dearth of precedent on this issue of having a plaintiff and defendant of the same domicile but the defendant simultaneously possessing a foreign citizenship. The case of Aguirre v. Nagel, 270 F. Supp. 535 (E.D.Mich.1967), is the only case this court has found that directly relates to the issue in question. There a young girl was domiciled with her parents in Michigan but also had a Mexican citizenship because her parents were Mexican nationals. Because the defendant in that case was also a citizen of Michigan, the court declined jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a) (1). However, that court declared it would be bad policy to decline jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a) (2).
Therefore, this court will take jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a) (2) even though jurisdiction would not exist under 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a) (1).

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