Legal Opinion
F. & H.R. Farman-Farmaian Consulting Engineers Firm and Farough Farman-Farmaian v. Harza Engineering Company
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 20, 1989No. 88-3133PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This lawsuit — a bit of fallout from the Iranian Revolution — was filed under the al-ienage component of the federal diversity jurisdiction. 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a)(2). The plaintiffs are F. & H.R. Farman-Farmaian Consulting Engineers Firm (“Consulting Firm,” for short), an Iranian corporation, and Farough Farman-Farmaian, an Iranian citizen now resident in London. The defendant is Harza Engineering Company, a Delaware corporation whose principal place of business is in Chicago.
Before his ouster by the revolutionary regime, Mr. Farman-Farmaian was the Consulting Firm’s…
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