U.S. Bank N.A. v. Reddy

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the immunity sovereigns enjoy is diminished “if an important and consequential ruling affecting the sovereign’s substantial interest is determined, or at least assumed, by a federal court in the sovereign’s absence and over its objection”
• holding that “where sovereign immunity is asserted, and the claims of the sovereign are not frivolous, dismissal of the action must be ordered where there is a potential for injury to the interests of the absent sovereign”
• stating that parties “are required entities because [wjithout them ... their interests in the subject matter are not protected”
• noting that Rule 19(a) “states the principles that determine whether persons or entities must be joined in a suit”
• stating that “adequacy refers to the ‘public stake in settling disputes by wholes, whenever possible’ ” (quoting Provident, 390 U.S. at 111, 88 S.Ct. 733)
• explaining that “Rule 19(b)’s first factor…directs consideration of prejudice both to absent persons and those who are parties”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).