Legal Opinion
Usm Corporation v. Gkn Fasteners Limited
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 12, 1978No. 77-1433PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWNES, Circuit Judge.
We face the unusual issue of the retroactive effect of amended pleadings on the jurisdiction of this court. On April 6, 1978, we ruled that no jurisdiction lay with the court of appeals to entertain an appeal from a stay order issued on August 8,1977, by the district court. USM Corp. v. GKN Fasteners, Ltd., 574 F.2d 17 (1st Cir., 1978). We now rule, for reasons which we discuss below, that the pleadings which were amended on May 10,1978, do not retrospectively validate the jurisdiction of this court. We begin with a brief resume of the procedural history of the case.
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