A Pennsylvania federal judge has thrown out Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney’s declaratory judgment action against three former lawyers of the firm’s San Diego office who asked to be repaid for their unused vacation time.

In an order filed Monday, U.S. District Judge David Stewart Cercone of the Western District of Pennsylvania dismissed the case without prejudice to the parties’ right to litigate in California. He declined to exercise jurisdiction under the Declaratory Judgment Act.