DAYNARD v. NESS, MOTLEY, LOADHOLT, ETC.

No. 01-2595.

290 F.3d 42 (2002)

Richard A. DAYNARD, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. NESS, MOTLEY, LOADHOLT, RICHARDSON & POOLE, P.A.; Ronald L. Motley, Defendants, Scruggs, Millette, Bozeman & Dent P.A.; Richard F. Scruggs, Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided May 10, 2002.

Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing Denied June 17, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward J. Barshak with whom Darrel C. Waugh and Sugarman, Rogers, Barshak & Cohen, P.C. were on brief for appellant.

Stephen M. Prignano with whom Mark A. Pogue and Edwards & Angell, LLP were on brief for appellees.

Before LYNCH, Circuit Judge, CAMPBELL and BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing En Banc Denied June 17, 2002.

LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

The issue on appeal is whether a federal district court sitting in Massachusetts has specific personal jurisdiction over a suit brought by Richard A. Daynard, a Massachusetts law professor, for fees in the tobacco litigation, against the Mississippi law firm of Scruggs, Millette, Bozeman & Dent, and Richard Scruggs, a senior partner ("Scruggs defendants"). At the...

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