Legal Opinion
Aponte-Davila v. Municipality of Caguas
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 8, 2016No. 15-1800PPublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
José Aponte-Dávila appeals from the district court’s dismissal of his negligence suit for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction. Aponte-Dávila invokes the federal courts’ diversity jurisdiction, arguing that because he was domiciled in Texas and the defendants were domiciled in Puerto Rico at the time the suit was filed, there was complete diversity. The district court found, instead, that both Aponte-Dávila and the defendants were domiciled in Puerto Rico and dismissed the case. We conclude otherwise, that Aponte-Dávila had not abandoned his Texas domicile while receiving…
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