United States First Circuit

In this personal injury action, plaintiff's challenges the district court's jurisdictional findings following a within-circuit transfer order for the purposes of determining personal jurisdiction. Judgment against plaintiff is affirmed, where: 1) the jurisdictional conclusion never ripened into an actual order of dismissal, but formed a part of the rationale for transferring the action; 2) even if it had ripened, plaintiff did not appeal either the transfer order or the order of dismissal, and appellate review of a transfer order is for abuse of discretion, which plaintiff did not argue; and 3) plaintiff did not present, at a minimum, some developed argumentation addressed to the relevant order, and as such, any potential challenge is deemed waived.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/08/2014
• Published 10/08/2014

Judges

• Selya

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel