Northport Health Services of Arkansas, LLC v. Rutherford

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that diversity of citizenship is determined by the citizenship of the parties named in the proceedings before the district court
• holding diversity of citizenship is determined not by the parties in the underlying controversy but rather by the parties named in the district court plus any Rule 19 indispensable parties who must be joined
• observing that “every circuit to consider the issue has concluded that a party joined in a parallel state court contract or tort action who would destroy diversity jurisdiction is not an indispensable party . . . in a federal action to compel arbitration”
• finding the existence of diversity jurisdiction in an action to compel arbitration under the FAA is determined “by the citizenship of the parties named in the proceedings before the district court, plus any indispensable parties who must be joined pursuant to Rule 19.”
• administrator of nursing home not indispensable party to arbitration between nursing home and resident of nursing home
• “[Diversity of citizenship is determined by reference to the parties named in the proceeding before the district court, as well as any indispensable parties who must be joined pursuant to Rule 19.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).