Plaintiffs counsel Steven Jacobs was waiting eagerly Monday to see whether the Connecticut Supreme Court would rule in his favor in taking an appeal from the Connecticut Appellate Court in the case of a client injured while riding his bicycle over a speed bump at the Quinnipiac University campus.

What Jacobs got instead was something he hadn’t seen in his 35 years as an attorney: The state’s high court, in a two-page, 7-0 ruling Monday afternoon, dismissed the appeal on the basis that certification had been improvidently granted.

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