...are chosen to manage its affairs, is a suit, so far as jurisdiction is concerned, between citizens of the state where the suit is brought and a citizen of another state. The corporators as individuals are not defendants in the suit, but they are parties having an...

...exception, which proves the extent of the rule it modifies and restricts. It authorizes suits to be brought "between a citizen of the State where the suit is brought and 519*] a citizen of another State," with »this important qualification, "that no inhabitant of the...

...of the several states, of all suits of a civil nature at common law or in equity where the suit is between a citizen of the State where the suit is brought and a citizen of another State." This bill would eliminate about two-thirds of that jurisdiction, or some 14,000 cases. (See...

...17S9, Congress created a system of federal courts of first instance and gave them jurisdiction of suits "between a citizen of the State where the suit is brought, and a citizen of another state." 4S The Supreme Court had held in the Hepburn case that a citizen of the District was not a...

...of the several states, of all suits of a civil nature at common law or in equity where tlte suit is between a citizen of the State where the suit is brought and a citizen of another State." The bill which was abandoned in 1971 would have eliminated about two-thirds of the diversity...

...of the several states, of all suits of a civil nature at common law or in equity where tl>e suit is between a citizen of the State where the suit is brought and a citizen of another State." The bill which was abandoned in 1971 would have eliminated about two-thirds of the diversity...

...Congress gave the federal courts jurisdiction over suits in which "an alien is a party or the suit is between a citizen of the State where the suit is brought, and a citizen of another State."119 Although, from time to time Congress has raised the jurisdictional amount for both diversity...

...Dollars, and the United States are Plaintiffs or Petitioners; or an Alien is a party, or the suit is between a Citizen of the State where the suit is brought, and a Citizen of another State. _ And shall have exclusive cognizance of all crimes and offences cognizable under the authority...

...dollars, and the United States are plaintiffs, or petitioners; or an alien is a party, or the suit is between a citizen of the State where the suit is brought, and a citizen of another State. And shall have exclusive cognizance of all crimes and offences cognizable under the authority...

...els. 5 & 6. 1527 US (3 Cranch) 267 (1806). The statute, as noted above, gave jurisdiction of suits "between a citizen of the State where the suit is brought, and a citizen of another State."153 Marshall's reasoning consisted of a bald conclusion: "The court understands these expressions...