KANTOR v. WELLESLEY GALLERIES, LTD.

No. 82-5121.

704 F.2d 1088 (1983)

Aleksander KANTOR, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. WELLESLEY GALLERIES, LTD., a foreign corporation; Ford Motor Company, a Delaware corporation; BKM Corporation, a California corporation, dba Budget Rent-A-Truck of Southern California, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided April 26, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Jaroslawicz, Van Nuys, Cal., for plaintiff-appellant.

Bonnie Bass, Murchison & Cumming, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants-appellees.

Before SNEED, SKOPIL, and BOOCHEVER, Circuit Judges.


SNEED, Circuit Judge:

This appeal poses the question whether a "stateless alien" who is domiciled in one of the several states can sue or be sued in federal court pursuant to diversity of citizenship jurisdiction as enacted in 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a)(1). Appellant filed a state law tort action in federal court alleging diversity of citizenship. Appellant is domiciled in New York but he is neither a citizen of the United States nor of any other country. The district...

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