Tetra Tech Tesoro, Inc. v. JAAAT Technical Services, LLC

DIETZ, Judge.

*793 This case came to the Court of Appeals posing as a complicated construction law dispute raising novel issues concerning who owns portions of the Fort Bragg military installation and whether the parties are covered by North Carolina law or instead by the federal laws that apply at Fort Bragg. The parties' appellate briefs deal exclusively with the merits of these contract, venue, and choice-of-law issues.

Unfortunately, this Court cannot reach these issues because the appeal also is plagued by jurisdictional problems stemming from the way in which it was appealed. Specifically,…