United States First Circuit

In a suit against defendants, most of whom were officials in the Massachusetts Department of Corrections, alleging federal and state constitutional violations, dismissal of plaintiffs' claims for lack of personal jurisdiction is reversed in part and remanded where: 1) assertion of personal jurisdiction over one defendant was authorized by the Massachusetts long-arm statute; and 2) exercising jurisdiction over that defendant comported with due process requirements under the federal constitution.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/28/2008
• Published 04/28/2008

Judges

• WALLACE, Senior Circuit Judge., Before TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge, WALLACE, Senior Circuit Judge, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Matthew J. Matule, with whom David S. Clancy and Christopher G. Clark, was on brief for appellant Hannon.


• For Appellees:
  
• Claudia M. Tesoro, Senior Deputy Attorney General, with whom Thomas W. Corbett, Jr., Attorney General, Calvin R. Koons, Senior Deputy Attorney General, and John G. Knorr, III, Chief Deputy Attorney General, Chief, Appellate Litigation Section, was on brief for appellees Beard and Hesse.