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Parties Involved:
Terry L. Burns
Appellee
Marlin E. Jones
Appellant

Document Text:

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The Honorable F. A. Gossett, III, United States Magistrate Judge for the

District of Nebraska, to whom the case was referred for final disposition by consent

of the parties pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(c).

United States Court of Appeals

FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT

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No. 09-3515

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Marlin E. Jones, *

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Appellant, * Appeal from the United States

* District Court for the

v. * District of Nebraska.

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Terry L. Burns, * [UNPUBLISHED]

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Appellee. *

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Submitted: April 22, 2010

Filed: April 27, 2010

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Before LOKEN, BYE, and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges.

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PER CURIAM.

Marlin E. Jones appeals the district court’s1

 Federal Rule of Civil Procedure

41(b) dismissal of his action for failure to prosecute and failure to comply with court

orders. We conclude that dismissal was not an abuse of discretion because, without

sufficient justification, Jones did not attend the final pretrial conference and did not

appear for trial. See DuBose v. Minnesota, 893 F.2d 169, 171 (8th Cir. 1990)

(standard of review; affirming Rule 41(b) dismissal where pro se plaintiff failed to

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attend pretrial conference or appear for trial). We likewise conclude that the court did

not abuse its discretion in declining to appoint counsel to represent Jones, see Phillips

v. Jasper County Jail, 437 F.3d 791, 794 (8th Cir. 2006) (standard of review; outlining

factors), or in denying Jones’s late-tendered motion to transfer venue, see Terra Int’l,

Inc. v. Miss. Chem. Corp., 119 F.3d 688, 696 (8th Cir. 1997) (standard of review).

Accordingly, we affirm. See 8th Cir. R. 47B. 

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