Express + Angular routing causing infinite loop + crash

I'm working on a Node app using Express as well as Angular. I'm using Angular for routing and have my routes setup like so:

app.config(['$routeProvider', function ($routeProvider) {
$routeProvider.when('/', {
    templateUrl: '/partials/main'
    //controller: 'IndexController'
}).when('/discover', {
    templateUrl: '/partials/discover'
}).when('/user/home', {  //HERES THE PROBLEM CHILD!!!!!
    templateUrl: '/partials/user/home'
}).otherwise({
    redirectTo: '/'
});
}]).config(['$locationProvider', function ($locationProvider) {
    $locationProvider.html5Mode(true);
}]);

Now, whenever I try and call /user/home -- The page goes into an infinite loop and keeps reloading the controller. I can see in the node console that the page was called from partials/user/home which definitely contains a Jade file. I've checked other posts, most of them are solved with ass the / in the beginning of the partials path, that didn't help here. The page loads fine if I transfer home.jade into the /partials directory with no sub directory. Any ideas?

Update: It seems the infinite loop happens anytime I try to load a partial in any sub-directory of partials.

Per request:

Node -- App.js:

app.get('/', routes.index);

app.get('/partials/:name', routes.partials);
app.get('*', routes.index);

And routes/index.js

exports.index = function(req, res) {
res.render('index', { title: 'Open Innovation Station' });
}

exports.partials = function(req, res) {
res.render('partials/' + req.params.name);
}