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GUIDRY, J. |aA state agency appeals a trial court’s judgment certifying as a class action the plaintiffs’ negligence claims premised on allegations that the agency’s failure to properly perform its regulatory duties contributed to the injuries they sustained as a result of a -fraudulent investment scheme perpetrated by an individual affiliated with 'a regulated entity.

Reversed and remanded by published opinion. Judge NIEMEYER wrote the opinion, in which Judge KING and Judge GREGORY joined. NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge: When Spartan International, Incorporated, and its subsidiaries (collectively “Spartan”) closed their doors for business, their major creditor commenced this debt-collection action in the District of South

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PER CURIAM: Allen Williams appeals the district court’s order granting defendant’s motion to compel enforcement of the parties’ settlement agreement. We have reviewed the record and find no reversible error. Accordingly, we affirm for the reasons stated by the district court. See Williams v. Aluminum Co. of Am., No. 1:00-cv-00379-NCT, 2006 WL 2023133 (M.D.N.C. filed July 15, 2006; entered July 17, 2006). We dispense

FLAUM, Circuit Judge. This is an appeal from summary judgment in favor of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company (“State Farm”) in a suit brought by one of its policy holders claiming that the under-insured vehicle provision of the State Farm automobile insurance policy provided only illusory coverage, and that the insurance company’s denial of the insured’s claim followin

262 F.3d 295 (4th Cir. 2001) MARGARET GILCHRIST; JOHN BROWN; GLORIA RENEW; MARTHA GRIFFIN; ESTRELLA D. ARD; GRANT L. COBB; MANUEL HOUSE; CLIFFORD GRIFFIN; MARY E. MOORE; MARSHALL KITCHENS; DANIEL A. BEARD; LINDA FISHBURN; LILLIE M. SAMUELS; DELORES A. WILLIAMS; CORAL L. HYDE; PATRICIA GRUBBS; BRENDA BEAL; ANNETTE E. IRBY; RUBY H. MCCULLOUGH; BRENDA BUSH; JOSIE M. HEARST; TUYET T. PARHAM; CORINE P. ROBBIN; ADA S. SPIVEY; NGUYEN THU YOUNG; THOMASENIA

RULING ON MOTION FOR CLASS CERTIFICATION EGINTON, District Judge. Facts Plaintiffs commenced this action on behalf of themselves and all similarly situated persons against various present and former federal, state and municipal officials, the City of New Haven (“City”) and the Southern New England Telephone Company (“SNET”). The complaint alleges that from approximately 1964

In the Court of Appeals Second Appellate District of Texas at Fort Worth ___________________________ No. 02-18-00487-CR ___________________________ KODY AUSTIN LOTT, Appellant V. THE STATE OF TEXAS On Appeal from the 30th District Court Wichita County, Texas Trial Court No. 58029-A and On Appeal from Criminal District Court No. 1 Tarrant County, Texa

CARNES, Circuit Judge: This case presents the question whether the pendency of a Title VII class action tolls the administrative charge-filing period for the class members when class certification is vacated because the representative failed to make a timely filing with the EEOC. We hold that it does toll the period for those wishing to bring individual suits but does not for those wishing to bring class action suits.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER JOSEPH F. BIANCO, District Judge: On June 22 and September 14, 2009, individuals acting at the direction of the Town of East Hampton (the “Town”) entered plaintiff Thomas Ferreira’s (“plaintiff’ or “Ferreira”) property located at 63 Navy Road in Montauk, New York (the “Property”) and removed many unregistered and inoperative vehicles, tools, and other items. The Town was acting pursuant

17 F.3d 356 64 Fair Empl.Prac.Cas. (BNA) 516,64 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 42,968Peners L. GRIFFIN, Henry L. Dejerinett, Plaintiffs,Alvin Smith, Intervenor-Appellant,v.Harry K. SINGLETARY, Jr., State of Florida Department ofCorrections, State of Florida, Defendants-Appellees,Louie L. Wainwright, Raymond W. Geary, Defendants,Samuel Platt, David Baber, Romeo Cozart, Marvin Jones,Michael Oyefesobi, Movants-Appellants.Pe

IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TEXAS NO. AP-76,883 TYRONE CADE, Appellant v. THE STATE OF TEXAS ON DIRECT APPEAL FROM CAUSE NO. F11-33962-R IN THE 265TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT DALLAS COUNTY H ERVEY, J., delivered the opinion of the unanimous

735 So.2d 161 (1999) Gerald DONALD v. AMOCO PRODUCTION CO., Atlantic Richfield Company, Bass Enterprises Production Co., Champlin Petroleum Company, Chevron Corporation, Chevron U.S.A., Inc., Coho Resources, Inc., Conoco, Inc., Conquest Exploration Co., Exxon Corporation, Fina Oil and Chemical Company, Four Star Oil & Gas Co., Huseman Oil & Royalty, Inc., Inexco Oil Company, Moon-Hines-Tigrett Operating Co., Inc., Mobil Oil Exploration &a;

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF MISSISSIPPI NO. 97-CA-01178-SCT GERALD DONALD v. AMOCO PRODUCTION CO., ATLANTIC RICHFIELD COMPANY, BASS ENTERPRISES PRODUCTION CO., CHAMPLIN PETROLEUM COMPANY, CHEVRON CORPORATION, CHEVRON U.S.A., INC., COHO RESOURCES, INC., CONOCO, INC., CONQUEST EXPLORATION CO., EXXON CORPORATION, FINA OIL AND CHEMICAL COMPANY, FOUR STAR OIL & GAS CO., HUSEMAN OIL & ROYALTY, INC., INEXCO OIL COMPANY, MOON-HINES-TIGRETT OPERATING CO., INC.

Almand, Justice. The judgment under review is one sustaining a general demurrer to a petition for declaratory judgment. ■ Thomas M. Lanier, by his will as amended by a codicil, left the bulk of his estate to E. S. Lanier, Jr. and James D. Cofer as trustees for the following uses: The testator’s wife, Mrs. Ethel C. Lanier, was to be provided a home with the trust paying all expenses incident to the occupation,

Townley, J. Petitioner was appointed a public school teacher in the city of New York, December 18, 1911, and served as such until September 9, 1918. Thereafter, the State of Connecticut, pursuant to the United States government war program, requested that petitioner be released on leave to conduct Americanization work in the State of Connecticut, The board of education granted petitioner leave until March 28, 1919. The work was

This is a suit to construe the will of Lucinda R. King, a widow who died on October 29, 1922, at the age of eighty-seven years, leaving no children, and no direct descendants. Plaintiff, William D. Snow, is the executor of the will, and the other plaintiffs, fifty-seven in number, are nephews and nieces, or the children of deceased nephews and nieces of the testatrix. Mary Downing Ferril, deceased, a niece of the testatrix, was the sole original defendant, but died pending the suit and

*532The opinion of the court was delivered by Bedle, J. The first count of this declaration alleges that in consideration that the plaintiffs were large shippers of live hogs over the lines of the defendants’ railways from Pitts-burg to Jersey City, the defendants agreed to transport such stock over their railways between those termini, at the regular rate

COFFEY, J. This case involves the interpretation of the last will of John J. O’Gorman, deceased, which is as follows: “I hereby make this my last will and testament and declare all previous wills or assignments of interest null and void. I hereby bequeath and bequest all my interest in and to my interest in the estate of Thomas O’Gorman, deceased. To be distributed as follows: Unto Edward O ’Sullivan