Navarro Savings Assn. v. Lee

A reader of the Court’s conclusory opinion might wonder why this heavily burdened tribunal chose to review this case. Most assuredly, we did not do so merely to reaffirm, ante, at 462, Mr. Chief Justice Marshall’s ruling from the bench in Chappedelaine v. Dechenaux, 4 Cranch 306, 308 (1808), to the effect that aliens serving respectively as residuary legatee and representative of an estate, “although they sue as trustees,” were entitled to bring a federal diversity action against a Georgia citizen. Rather, I had thought that we granted cer-tiorari to resolve a significant conflict among the…