Opinion ID: 2614930
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: assessment of the record in this cause

Text: The record before us is incomplete; the parties incorporated for our guidance neither the federal district court's judgment roll nor the briefs submitted at various stages of federal reviews. [23] I would conclude, on this record's assessment, that (1) the state-law claims' dismissal was not urged as error in the federal reviews [24] and (2) neither the record nor the briefs before us shed any light on the critical issue of whether a mid-appeal refiling of the state claims in a state court would have hobbled Grider's posture in his federal litigation. [25] In short, the record plaintiff tenders for our review reveals no more than that the refiled state-law claims failed otherwise than on the merits when they were dismissed in the federal trial court. Were it not for a total absence of extant authority on the controlling issue before us today, [26] I would conclude that Grider's action was time-barred when he commenced it below more than one year after the federal district court's dismissal of his pendent claims.