Legal Opinion
JPMorgan Chase Bank v. Traffic Stream (BVI) Infrastructure Ltd.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 10, 2002No. 01-651PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Souter
The question here is whether a corporation organized under the laws of the British Virgin Islands is a “citize[n] or subjec[t] of a foreign state” for the purposes of alienage diversity jurisdiction, 28 U. S. C. § 1332(a)(2). We hold that it is.
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Respondent Traffic Stream (BVI) Infrastructure Ltd. is a corporation organized under the laws of the British Virgin Islands (BVI), an Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom. In 1998, petitioner Chase Manhattan Bank, now JPMorgan Chase Bank, agreed to finance some ventures Traffic Stream had organized to construct and operate toll roads in China,…
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