Legal Opinion
Richard A. Daynard v. Ness, Motley, Loadholt, Richardson & Poole, P.A. Ronald L. Motley, Scruggs, Millette, Bozeman & Dent P.A. Richard F. Scruggs
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 17, 2002No. 01-2595PublishedCited by 432 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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 heart of Daynard’s claim is the argument that the court may reach the Scruggs defendants based in large part on contacts imputed from the South Carolina law firm of Ness, Motley, Loadholt, Richardson & Poole, and…
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