Time: Mon Dec 01 10:43:50 1997
To: Charles Petras <cpetras@stratos.net>
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: On state citizenship...
Cc: 
Bcc: sls
References: 

Assumes facts not in evidence, i.e.,
votes by 3/4 of the states ratifying
the so-called 14th amendment.

/s/ Paul Mitchell,
Candidate for Congress
http://supremelaw.com



At 10:51 AM 12/1/97 -0500, you wrote:
>
>	"A person cannot be a "citizen" of a state unless 
>	she is also a citizen of the United States."
>
>Excerpted from
>
>	*Coury v. Prot,* 
>	85 F.3d 244, 251-252 (5th Cir. 1996)
>
>``A person cannot be a "citizen" of a state unless she is also a citizen of
>the United States. See e.g., Newman-Green, Inc. v. Alfonzo-Larrain, 490
>U.S. 826, 109 S.Ct. 2218, 104 L.Ed.2d 893 (1989); Mas v. Perry, 489 F.2d
>1396 (5th Cir.) cert. denied, 419 U.S. 842, 95 S.Ct. 74, 42 L.Ed.2d 70
>(1974). A United States citizen who is domiciled in a state is a citizen of
>that state. See Robertson v. Cease, 97 U.S. 646, 648-650, 24 L.Ed. 1057
>(1878). Thus, with few exceptions, state citizenship for diversity purposes
>is regarded as synonymous with domicile. E.g., Rodriguez-Diaz v.
>Sierra-Martinez, 853 F.2d 1027 (lst Cir. 1988); 1 J. Moore, Moore's Federal
>Practice sec. 0.74[3] n. 3. Accordingly, it has been held consistently that
>a diversity suit may not be maintained under 28 U.S.C. sec. 1332(a)(1) by
>or against a United States citizen who is domiciled in a foreign country,
>for a resident of a foreign country is not necessarily a citizen thereof.
>Smith v. Carter, 545 F2d 909 (5th Cir.) cert. denied, 431 U.S. 955, 97
>S.Ct. 2677, 53 L.Ed.2d 272 (1977). Moreover, an American living abroad is
>not by virtue of that domicile a citizen or subject of the foreign state in
>which he resides so as to permit invocation of the alienage jurisdiction
>prescribed in 28 U.S.C. sec. 1332(a)(2) of the Judicial Code. 13B
>Wright-Miller-Cooper, Federal Practice & Procedure sec. 3621 (1984).''
>
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