U.S. District Judge Michael Shea of the District of Connecticut. Courtesy photo.
Citing a lack of personal jurisdiction in Connecticut, a federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that a prominent attorney filed following back surgery he claimed was botched in China.
In his April 30 ruling, U.S. District Judge Michael Shea dismissed attorney James Shaughnessy’s lawsuit against Dr. Edward Southern, because the doctor has had no involvement with Connecticut for years. The judge said Southern, who now lives in Minnesota, has not had much to do with Connecticut since he was a resident at Yale University School of Medicine and a clinical instructor there in the mid-1990s. For that reason federal court in Connecticut was not the appropriate place to bring the lawsuit, Shea ruled.
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