First Circuit: Rodriguez-Miranda v. Benin


FRCP, Due Process


Post-judgment motion to join defts for purposes of enforcing the judgment did not have to mention the specific FRCP rule, as the motion was made with sufficient particularity to afford notice.

Defts can be joined after entry of judgment -- the matter remains a pending one.

No plain error in holding newly joined defts jointly and severally liable for full judgment, as the court held them to be alter egos, not successors in (perhaps partial) interest. 

Notice and opportunity to challenge sufficed for personal jurisdiction.

Court's imposition of contempt fines was civil, not criminal, as it was attempting to enforce compliance,and was therefore procedurally sufficient.

Rodriguez-Miranda v. Benin