Eugene Nyambal v. International Monetary Fund

Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge BROWN.

BROWN, Circuit Judge:

The International Monetary Fund’s (“Fund’s”) motion to dismiss this tort suit was converted into a discovery dispute when the district court, over the Fund’s objections, granted plaintiffs request for jurisdictional discovery. The Fund sought reconsideration of the discovery order; the court denied it and separately disposed of the motion to dismiss as moot because the plaintiff had filed an amended complaint. Because we think more than a bare assertion that “something may turn up” is necessary to justify jurisdictional…