MANSFIELD, Circuit Judge:
This appeal raises the question of whether federal diversity jurisdiction may be acquired through the assignment by a non-diverse parent corporation of its claim to a newly-created, 100 percent owned diverse subsidiary, which owns no other assets and is engaged solely in the prosecution of the claim. In this case the parent, Prudential Equities, a Delaware corporation ("Prudential-Delaware"), assigned its claim against appellant Phillips...
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