Moss v. Princip

PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:

This case sits at the unusual intersection of federal subject-matter jurisdiction and a district court's exercise of its discretion to dismiss a partnership as a dispensable party when all its partners were parties in the case. We conclude that the district court had subject-matter jurisdiction to try the case and did not err in dismissing a nondiverse partnership as dispensable, nor err in its entry of judgment upon the jury's verdict. We affirm and remand to the district court for the sole purpose of fashioning any appropriate protective measures to…