Ner Tamid Congregation of N. Town v. Krivoruchko

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

JEFFREY COLE, United States Magistrate Judge.

INTRODUCTION

Plaintiffs Counsel: ... Well, where do you reside, sir?

Defendant: It’s a good question.... (Krivoruchko Deposition at 49)

This seemingly simple question — the answer to which would prove so slippery and elusive to the defendant — has caused far more dispute and consternation than normally occurs where the question of residency is challenged. But since residence — at least permanent residence — is a component of domicile and thus intimately bound up in any inquiry into subject matter jurisdiction, see Koch v.…