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ROMANELLA v. HAYWARD

No. 1366, Docket 96-9222.

114 F.3d 15 (1997)

Emilia ROMANELLA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Richard HAYWARD; Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, a federally recognized tribe that owns reservation lands and non-reservation lands in Ledyard, Connecticut; Richard Libby, Director of Maintenance, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided May 23, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert I. Reardon, The Reardon Law Firm, P.C., New London, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

David S. Williams, Brown, Jacobson, Tillinghast, Lahan & King, P.C. (Elizabeth Conway, of counsel), Norwich, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: CARDAMONE and WINTER, Circuit Judges, and ROSS, District Judge.

PER CURIAM:

Emilia Romanella appeals from Judge Nevas's dismissal of her negligence action on grounds of lack of diversity jurisdiction and Indian tribal sovereign immunity. We agree that an Indian tribe is not a citizen of any state for purposes of diversity jurisdiction and affirm for substantially the reasons stated by the district court. See Romanella v. Hayward, 933 F.Supp. 163, 165-67 (D.Conn. 1996). The district...

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