Askew v. Sheriff of Cook County, Ill.

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• holding that Cook County was a necessary party to a lawsuit against the Sheriff of Cook County
• noting that joinder is infeasible when the addition of the necessary party would destroy complete diversity or where the court lacks personal jurisdiction over the necessary party
• noting that even then dismissal is not automatic
• “The first step . . . is to identify which parties (if any) fall within the scope of the rule.”
• “[T]he County does not become an ‘indispensable’ party [under Rule 19] just because it may need to indemnify the Sheriff in the future . . . .”
• “Rule 19 requires that once a court determines that a party is a required party and it is feasible for that party to be joined, the court ‘must order that the person be made a party.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).