Legal Opinion
Navarro Savings Assn. v. Lee
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 19, 1980No. 79-465PublishedCited by 734 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Powell
The question is whether the trustees of a business trust may irivoke the diversity jurisdictión of the federal courts on the basis of their own citizenship, rather than that of the trust’s beneficial shareholders.
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The respondents are eight individual trustees of Fidelity Mortgage Investors, a business trust organized under Massachusetts law.1 They hold title to real estate investments in trust for the benefit of Fidelity’s shareholders.2 The declaration of trust gives the respondents exclusive authority over this property “free from any power and control of the Shareholders, to the same…
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