United States Third Circuit

For purposes of diversity jurisdiction, only the American nationality of a dual national is recognized. In a diversity suit arising when a light fixture installed by defendants fell on plaintiff while she was working in the U.S. Virgin Islands, grant of defendants' post-trial motion to vacate an adverse jury verdict and to dismiss the complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction is affirmed where the parties were not diverse as required under 28 U.S.C. section 1332.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/03/2008
• Published 01/03/2008

Judges

• Before:  SMITH, NYGAARD, and ROTH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Francis E. Jackson, Jr., Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas USVI, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• David J. Cattie, Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, Stephen A. Brusch, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas USVI, for Appellees.