Sung-Chul Jung v. Fairfax Taxi, Inc.

Summary

The Fourth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of the wrongful-death and personal-injury actions. It held that diversity jurisdiction existed because the deceased foreign citizen's nominal administrator was disregarded and the South Korean statutory beneficiaries were treated as the real parties in interest. The court also upheld exclusion of the untimely and inadequately supported accident-reconstruction testimony and concluded that the remaining circumstantial evidence did not permit a reasonable jury to determine why or how the collision occurred. No separate opinions were filed.