Opinion ID: 151784
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Heading Rank: 6

Heading: standard of review

Text: We review a district court's dismissal for failure to timely serve process under Fed.R.Civ.P. 4(m) for abuse of discretion. Zapata v. City of New York, 502 F.3d 192, 195 (2d Cir.2007); see also Thompson v. Maldonado, 309 F.3d 107, 110 (2d Cir.2002) (adopting abuse of discretion standard of review for Rule 4(m) dismissals). A district court has abused its discretion if it has (1) based its ruling on an erroneous view of the law, (2) made a clearly erroneous assessment of the evidence, or (3) rendered a decision that cannot be located within the range of permissible decisions. Lynch v. City of New York, 589 F.3d 94, 99 (2d Cir.2009) (internal quotation marks omitted). A district court's choice of law and its application of a statute of limitations are reviewed de novo as questions of law. See Abdullahi v. Pfizer, Inc., 562 F.3d 163, 190 (2d Cir. 2009); Somoza v. New York City Dep't of Educ., 538 F.3d 106, 112 (2d Cir.2008).