Frontera v. Sindell

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• noting that the “initial inquiry” for diversity purposes is determining whether a state is a real party of interest
• asserting that a “district court would be without power to entertain [an] action under the diversity statute” if “the state of New Jersey [was] a real party in interest”
• determining that New Jersey, although considered an indispensable party by statute, was not a real party of interest to a contract dispute where it was not a party to the contract, its pecuniary interest was speculative, and, it would “not be affected in any substantial way” by the outcome
• when a state is a party to an action and that “particular case involves a question of diversity jurisdiction, the initial inquiry is [always] the same: is the state the real party in interest to the litigation?”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).