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Tenth Circuit· 12/9/2010

Constien v. United States

Citations

  • 628 F.3d 1207
  • 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 25123
  • 2010 WL 4983000

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that service of a summons was defective where the plaintiff himself mailed the summons
  • holding that Rule 4(c) “contains no mailing exception to the nonparty requirement for service”
  • holding that Rule 4(c) “contains no mailing exception to the nonparty requirement for service”
  • holding that Rule 4(c) “contains no mailing exception to the nonparty requirement for service”
  • providing that the time period under Fed. R. Civ. P. 4(m) “runs from the filing of the initial complaint” and that “later amendments to the complaint do not change the time limit except for newly added parties”
  • stating that when a notice of appeal is filed while a Rule 59(e) and certain other post-judgment motions are pending, “the notice of appeal, and with it the appellate court’s jurisdiction, is suspended until such motions are disposed of”

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Judges: Hartz, Anderson, Tymkovich

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