Reference no: EM133243104
You are working on a case now pending in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada, located in the Ninth Circuit. You have been asked to find out whether a defendant who unsuccessfully moved to dismiss the case for insufficient service of process can later file a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim on which relief can be granted. Your legal research has located the following authorities, each of which squarely addresses your legal issue. Based only on the information provided in this exercise, make a preliminary ranking of the authorities in order of their respective mandatory and persuasive value in resolving the issue.
Catdog v. Amundsen-U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 2008
Great Basin Realty Co. v. Rand-Nevada Supreme Court, 2002
Matthewson's treatise titled Federal Courts (published last year) Wilkes v. Jae Sun Trading Corp.-U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1977
Pincus v. McGrath-U.S. Supreme Court, 1953
Mader v. City of Las Vegas-U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada, 2013
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b) (revised last year)
Barking Pumpkins Records, Inc. v. Sepulveda-California Supreme Court, 2009
Garibaldi v. City of Boulder-U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, 2007
Ali v. Frazier-U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 1935