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082584P.pdf   07/02/2009  David Boyle  v.  American Auto Service, Inc.
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  08-2584
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City   
   [PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Riley and Shepherd, Circuit Judges]
   Civil case - civil procedure. Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(b)
   applied to situation where plaintiff timely failed to serve the complaint
   before the case was removed from state to federal court; the district court
   did not abuse its discretion in dismissing the case based on a 44-month
   delay in service as the delay was unexcused.