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DANJAQ, S.A. v. PATHE COMMUNICATIONS CORP.

No. 91-55878.

979 F.2d 772 (1992)

DANJAQ, S.A., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. PATHE COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION; MGM-Pathe Communications Co.; Tracinda Corporation; Kirk Kerkorian; MGM/UA Communications Co., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided November 12, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard King, Gang, Tyre, Ramer & Brown, Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiff-appellant.

Eric N. Landau, Christensen, White, Miller, Fink & Jacobs; and Howard Weitzman, Karen Randall, Mark A. Wooster and Lura L. Burton, Katten Muchin Zavis & Weitzman, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants-appellees.

Before: FEINBERG, GOODWIN and SCHROEDER, Circuit Judges.

SCHROEDER, Circuit Judge:

This appeal involves two arcane issues of subject matter jurisdiction that are of first impression in this Circuit. Both issues relate to the determination of a corporation's principal place of business for purposes of diversity jurisdiction. The first is whether alien corporations are subject to 28 U.S.C. § 1332(c), which states that a corporation is a citizen both of its place of incorporation and the location of its principal...

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