Legal Opinion
U.S. Bank Trust, N.A. v. Dedoming
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided April 10, 2018No. CIVIL ACTION NO. 17–10616–WGYPublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAM G. YOUNG, DISTRICT JUDGE
Here, counsel for the Defendants has maintained a gallant rear guard action seeking to avoid foreclosure of his clients' interests in certain real property.
Having played out the game, his final move is to claim that the citizenship of the LSF9 Trust itself is, or may be, Massachusetts. If so, he maintains, diversity of citizenship is lacking, see 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a), and this Court lacks subject matter jurisdiction to proceed further.
The issue here is thus whether, for purposes of establishing diversity jurisdiction, the citizenship of a business trust is…
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