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092433P.pdf 05/14/2010 Northport Health Services v. Wayne Rutherford
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 09-2433
and No: 09-2435
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas - Fayetteville
[PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with John R. Gibson and Wollman,
Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Arbitration. The Supreme Court's decision in Vaden v.
Discover Bank, 129 S.Ct. 1262 (2009) did not overrule the otherwise on-
point decisions in Moses H. Cone Hospital v. Mercury Construction
Corp. 460 U.S. 1 (1083) and Advance America Servicing of Arkansas v.
McGinnis, 526 F.3d 1170 (8th Cir. 2008), and the district court erred in
dismissing the cases for lack of subject matter jurisdiction; under the
cited cases the diversity of citizenship is determined by the citizenship of
the parties named in the proceedings in the district, plus any Rule 19
indispensable parties; cases remanded to the district court with directions
to re-enter orders compelling arbitration.