Carden v. Arkoma Assocs

In Carden v. Arkoma Assocs., 494 U.S. 185, 195-96, 110 S.Ct. 1015, 1021, 108 L.Ed.2d 157 (1990), the Supreme Court held that for purposes of diversity of citizenship, a limited partnership is a citizen of each state in which any of its partners, limited or general, are citizens. In reaching this holding, the Court noted the long-standing rule that the citizenship of an artificial, unincorporated entity generally depends on the citizenship of all the members composing the organization. 494 U.S. at 195-96, 110 S.Ct. at 1021. In applying this general rule to a limited partnership, rather than extending to it 28 U.S.C. 1332(c)(1)'s statutory exception for corporations, it reasoned that Congress, if it so chooses, is capable of adjusting the rules of diversity jurisdiction to account for unincorporated associations. Carden, 494 U.S. at 196-97, 110 S.Ct. at 1022.