Legal Opinion
Newman-Green, Inc. v. Alfonzo-Larrain
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided August 11, 1989No. 88-774PublishedCited by 1,379 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Marshall
We decide today that a court of appeals may grant a motion to dismiss a dispensable party whose presence spoils statutory diversity jurisdiction.
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Petitioner Newman-Green, Inc., an Illinois corporation, brought this state-law contract action in District Court against a Venezuelan corporation, four Venezuelan citizens, and William L. Bettison, a United States citizen domiciled in Caracas, Venezuela. Newman-Green’s complaint alleged that the Venezuelan corporation had breached a licensing agreement, and that the individual defendants, joint and several guarantors of royalty payments due under…
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