In a little noticed ruling in late June, the 7th Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago accepted the Washington D.C.-based firm's claim that it was a "Stateless" entity that can't be sued in federal court.
"In response to our concerns regarding subject matter jurisdiction, Perkins Coie submitted affidavits from three individual partners who are U.S. citizens domiciled in China: Yun Lu, Scott Palmer, and James M. Zimmerman," the court noted.
"This attribution of statelessness destroys complete diversity and deprived the district court of the power to hear this case. File USCOURTS-ca7-20-02781-0.pdf The appellate judges acknowledged the legal theory of federal court immunity for"Stateless" entities was novel and based on laws created before the rise of multinational corporations and it may be ripe for review by the U.S. Supreme Court.
"But keep in mind that when Congress enacted the Judiciary Act of 1789, and in the subsequent decades when the Supreme Court decided many of its significant diversity jurisdiction cases, most of today's business forms did not exist.
" "The Supreme Court has not explicitly answered this question.
The Court has held both that a stateless citizen cannot be sued in diversity and that the citizenship of a partnership is based on the citizenship of each individual partner," the judges added.
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