EDMONDSON, Circuit Judge:
The issue in this appeal is whether a district court — without prior notice to the parties of its intended action — may dismiss on its own motion a claim for lack of personal jurisdiction and improper venue. We hold that it may not.
Plaintiff Eugene Lipofsky, a Florida resident, filed his complaint in the Southern District of Florida, seeking to enforce a purported judgment entered in New York awarding him workers' compensation...
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