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KAREN LeCRAFT HENDERSON, Circuit Judge: This case presents the question of how to determine the citizenship of a trust for diversity subject-matter jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a). In light of the United States Supreme Court’s recent decision in Americold Realty Trust v. ConAgra Foods, Inc., 577 U.S. -, 136 S.Ct. 1012, 194 L.Ed.2d 71 (2016), we c

[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] *Page 53 A buyer appeals from that portion of a judgment entered on a jury verdict awarding him $35,000 in damages from sellers for breach of a contract to sell him certain real property. The amount of the award was based on the difference between the contract price and the fair market value of the property at the tim

MEMORANDUM OPINION JAMES E. BOASBERG, United States District Judge This case begins in a Taiwanese rags-to-riehes tale. Yung-Ching (Y.C.) Wang was bom in 1917 into a tea-farming family so poor that he could not afford to attend high school. By his death in 2008, he was his country’s second wealthiest person — a plastics tycoon worth an estimated $6.8 billio

WYZANSKI, District Judge. This case is before this Court on defendant’s motion to dismiss or for summary judgment. December 23,1952 Wong Ark Kit, then and now in Hong Kong, filed in this Court against the Secretary of State a petition seeking a declaration that plaintiff is a national of the United States. Jurisdiction is claimed under § 503 of the Nationality Act of 1940, 54 Stat. 1171, 8 U.S.C. § 903.

Rogers, Circuit Judge: This is the second time this case has come before the court. The first time the court held that the district court had jurisdiction and reversed the dismissal of the complaint for lack of diversity. Wang ex rel. Wong v. New Mighty U.S. Trust , 843 F

BYERS, District Judge. The plaintiff Wong Yoke Sing by .his alleged brother Wong Kim Sing, seeks a‘declaratory judgment that shall, (a) designate him to be a United States citizen pursuant to Section 1993 of the Revised Statutes;1 (b) direct the defendant to issue to him a passport or , “other travel document to enable him *460to travel fr

MEMORANDUM OPINION JAMES E. BOASBERG, District Judge. In this case, Plaintiff Yueh-Lan Wang, a citizen and domiciliary of Taiwan, seeks to recover property allegedly transferred by her late husband Yung-Ching Wang (Y.C.) to Defendant New Mighty U.S. Trust (NM-US Trust) during the five years prior to his death. She contends that the Civil Code

OPINION OP THE COURT BY ROBERTSON, C.J. Tbe plaintiffs, as copartners under the firm name of the Honolulu Firewood Company, instituted an action of assumpsit in the circuit court against the defendant corporation upon two counts, one for money had and received, the other upon an ac*661count stated. The defendant interposed a plea in abatement alleging

MORROW, Circuit Judge. The petitioner alleges that he is unlawfully and unjustly detained and imprisoned by Alexander Center, general agent for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, by virtue of an order of deportation made by the collector of customs for the port of San Francisco; that on or about the 1st of September, 1901, the petitioner purchased from the agent of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company at Hong Kong, China, passage

BRATTON, Circuit Judge. The appeal in this case presents for determination the question whether a Chinese alien, lawfully admitted to the United States in 1929 for an indefinite period as the minor son of a Chinese treaty merchant who came here in 1922, acquires the status of a permanent resident requisite for naturalization.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHIN-TEH HSU, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Civil Action No. 10-1743 (JEB) NEW MIGHTY U.S. TRUST, et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION Anna Karenina famously opens: “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” The intestate death of

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHIN-TEN HSU, et al., as Executors of the will of Yueh-Lan Wang, Plaintiffs, v. Civil Action No. 10-1743 (JEB) NEW MIGHTY U.S. TRUST, et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION Having watched this case wend its way through many twists and turns, the Court must n

JAMES E. BOASBERG, United States District Judge Having watched this case wend its way through many twists and turns, the Court must now determine whether it in fact belongs across the Pacific. Bringing a Motion to Dismiss for forum non conveniens, Defendants contend that Taiwan, not the District of Columbia, is the appropriate jurisdiction in which to resolve this dispute over the estate of plastics magnate Yung-Ching

Me. Justice Field, concurring in part and dissenting in part. The majority of the justices, in this case, hold that whatever might be true as to the power of the United States to exclude aliens, yet there was no power to punish such aliens who had been permitted to become residents, and that, if such power did exist, it could only be lawfully exercised after a

134 P.3d 585 (2006) 110 Hawai`i 419 KEAHOLE DEFENSE COALITION, INC., a Hawai`i nonprofit corporation; Peggy J. Ratliff and Mahi Cooper, Appellants-Appellees v. BOARD OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES, State of Hawai`i; Department of Land and Natural Resources, State of Hawai`i; Hawaii Electric Light Company, Inc., a Hawai`i corporation, Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, State of Hawai`i, Appellees-Appellees and Waimana En

KNIGHT, District Judge. This is an appeal from an order directing deportation of the above-named Lee Hee. After apprehension and while in custody, defendant made certain statements. These were reduced to writing and purport to have been signed by defendant by Ms mark. These statements were received in evidence by the Commissioner, and were submitted as a part of the proofs upon this appeal. They were rece

RECOMMENDED FOR FULL-TEXT PUBLICATION Pursuant to Sixth Circuit Rule 206 File Name: 08a0166p.06 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT _________________ X Petitioner, - FANG

523 F.3d 640 (2008) FANG HUANG, Petitioner, v. Michael B. MUKASEY, Attorney General, Respondent. No. 07-3127. United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit. Submitted: April 24, 2008. Decided and Filed: April 25, 2008. *642 ON BRIEF: Theodore N. Cox, Law Offices, New York, New York, for Petitioner. Melissa S. Lei

PUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 17-1582 JIHAD ADBUL-MUMIT; MATTHEW ABEDI; MONICA ADAIR SARGENT; MARK AGEE; ALIZ AGOSTON; YVONNE ALSTON; DAN AMATRUDA; KRISTY AMBROSE; KIMBERLEY AMICK; WANDA G. AMOS; CHRISTOPHER ARAUZA; CARL ARSENAULT; BROOKE ASHER; MICHELLE ATKINS; RAYMOND O. ATKINS; MATTHEW ATWELL; DAVID AUB; SOHA AYYASH; ASIF AZIZ; SUSAN BAILEY; KAREN BAKER; HAB BA