Kantor v. Wellesley Galleries, Ltd.

704 F.2d 1088 Aleksander KANTOR, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. WELLESLEY GALLERIES, LTD., a foreign corporation; Ford Motor Company, a Delaware corporation; BKM Corporation, a California corporation, dba Budget Rent-A-Truck of Southern California, Defendants-Appellees. No. 82-5121. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Dec. 6, 1982. Decided April 26, 1983. David Jaroslawicz, Van Nuys, Cal., for plaintiff-appellant. Bonnie Bass, Murchison & Cumming, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California. Before SNEED, SKOPIL, and BOOCHEVER, Circuit Judges. SNEED, Circuit Judge: 1 This appeal poses the question whether a "stateless alien" who is domiciled in one of the several states can sue or be sued in federal court pursuant to diversity of citizenship jurisdiction as enacted in 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1332 (a)(1). Appellant filed a state law tort action in federal court alleging diversity of citizenship. Appellant is domiciled in New York but he is neither a citizen of the United States nor of any other country. The district court dismissed the complaint, concluding that because…