Cases

MEMORANDUM ** Mark Dennison appeals the district court’s denial of his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim. Dennison alleges that the termination of his employment as a police officer from the City of Phoenix (Oregon) Police Department (“Police Department”) without opportunity for a hearing violated his right to due process. The district court granted summary judgment for appellees, the City of Phoenix (“City”) and Chi

MEMORANDUM ** Mark Dennison appeals the district court’s denial of his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim. Dennison alleges that the termination of his employment as a police officer from the City of Phoenix (Oregon) Police Department (“Police Department”) without opportunity for a hearing violated his right to due process. The district court granted summary judgment for appellees, the City of Phoenix (“City”) and Chi

McFarland, J. On October 21,1891, the defendants gave their negotiable promissory no.te to plaintiffs for three thousand dollars, due two years after date, with interest at ten per cent per annum payable semi-annually according to coupons attached. The note contained this clause: “If any interest or any installment thereof be not paid whén due, it may be compounded semiannually and added to said principal and thereafter bear inte

752 S.W.2d 714 (1988) Billy Michael WHITE, Appellant, v. Jim Wayne DENNISON, Appellee. No. 05-87-00712-CV. Court of Appeals of Texas, Dallas. June 9, 1988. Rehearing Denied July 14, 1988. *715 Lonnie C. McQuire, Albert Levy, Kip A. Petroff, Irving, for appellant. Douglas D. Fletcher, Todd T. Wong, Dallas,

OPINION ERVIN, Chief Judge: Robert D’Anjou was charged with narcotics and firearms violations in two counts of a twenty-seven count indictment returned July 11, 1991. 1 Immediately prior to trial, the firearms count was dismissed on motion of the United States, and D’Anjou was tried and convicte

1. The jury returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff in his action for breach of an oral contract of employment. The Appeals Court decided that the defendant’s motion for a directed verdict should have been granted, and they reversed the judgment. 4 Mass. App. Ct. 800 (1976). We granted further appellate review. G. L. c. 211A, § 11. In 1959, when the plaintiff was fifty years old, he applied for and was offered a job as an engi

The opinion of the Court was pronounced by Hutchinson, C. J. On general principles the effect of the reversal of a judgement is to do atvay that judgement, and place *172the parties in the same situation they were in before the judgement was rendered. If the debtor has paid the judgement before ai.reversal he can recover it back afterwards. Upon the sam

COFFIN, Circuit Judge. On losing a representation election in June 1965 at two Massachusetts plants of the Dennison Manufacturing Company [Company], the United Papermakers and Paperworkers, AFL-CIO [Paper-makers] objected to the conduct of the election and charged that the Company had “dominated and interfered with the formation an

Of the six cases reserved on the same agreed facts, the only one necessary to be considered is the writ of entry Fletcher v. John E. Chamberlin: and as the defendant does not contend that the law of the case is affected by the fact that Morse was joined with him as a grantor in the mortgages, the defendant may be regarded as sole grantor and sole warrantor. Having first mortgaged the land to Atkinson, he gave a warranty mortgage of *Page 468 the same land

ROGERS, Circuit Judge. This action was brought under the federal Employers’ Liability Act (Comp. St. §§ 8657-8665) to recover damages for the death of the plaintiff’s intestate, who for several years prior to his death had been in the employ of the. Delaware, Lackawanna *335& Western Railroad Company, and at the time of his death was in the service o

Opinion op the Court by Judge Settle Reversing. On his trial in the conrt below under an indictment accusing him of the offense of unlawfully transporting intoxicating liquors, not for sacramental, medicinal, mechanical or scientific purposes, the appellant, Buck Dennison, was by verdict of the jury found guilty of the offense charged and his punishment fixed at a fine of $150.00 and imprisonme

May 10, 1912, the appellant entered into a written contract with Stoughton A. Fletcher and Albert E. Metzger under the terms of which she leased to them certain described real estate in the city of Indianapolis for a term of ninety-nine years. June 27, 1912, Fletcher and Metzger, by a writing executed on that date, assigned their interest in said lease to the appellee Fletcher Savings and Trust Building Company. February 12, 1919, the Fletcher Savings and Trust Building Company sublet the rea

OPINION HURWITZ, Circuit Judge: These are consolidated petitions for review of orders by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) that require the Bonneville Power Administration — a federal agency that both markets electricity and operates a large portion of the transmission grid in the Pacific Northwest — to provide transmission services on terms “not unduly discriminatory or preferential.” Bonnev

MEMORANDUM ** Ronald L. Bishop, a consumer, appeals the dismissal of his complaint, which al*584leged that U.S. Bancorp failed to comply with its reinvestigation duties as a furnish-er of credit information under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1681-1681u (2000) (“FCRA”). Bishop contends that his complaint was timely filed within two yea

MEMORANDUM ** Plaintiff-Appellant Leslie Kemmerer appeals the grant of summary judgment to Defendant-Appellee Starwood Hotels Resorts & Worldwide, Inc. (“Starwood”). We affirm. For purposes of summary judgment, this case concerns an oral contract made on May 7, 1997, between Plaintiff-Appellant Kemmerer and Barry Sternlicht, CEO of Defendant-Appellee Starwood. Kemmerer sought out Sternlich

MEMORANDUM** Marie Snyder, as guardian ad litem of her son, Dylan Ridenour, appeals from a *654district court order dismissing her complaint for insufficiency of process because co-defendant-appellee the United States was improperly served under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 4. In the absence of a “persuasive justification for [

SKOPIL, Circuit Judge: We must decide whether the retroactive application of a Nevada statute allowing debtors to exempt Individual Retirement Accounts from bankruptcy violates the Contract Clause of the United States Constitution. Both the bankruptcy court and the district court concluded that although the statute impaired private contract rights, the impairment was justified to achieve a valid public purpose. We agree and

CALLAHAN, Circuit Judge, dissenting. I respectfully dissent. *404I would vacate and remand on the ground that the arbitrator’s decision was not confirmable under the Federal Arbitration Act. Although the arbitrator may have decided the question put to him, that question did not determine a claim, or liability, or damages, or grant or deny

41 P.3d 327 (2002) VENETIAN CASINO RESORT, LLC; Grand Canal Shops Mall Construction, LLC; and Frontier Insurance Company, Petitioners, v. The EIGHTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF the STATE of Nevada, in and for the COUNTY OF CLARK, and the Honorable James A. Brennan, Senior Judge, Respondents, and Lehrer McGovern Bovis, Inc.; Herrick Corporation; Harris/Arizona Rebar, Inc.; Choice Electric; Eberhard/Southwest Roofing, Inc.; and TRM Corporation d

MEMORANDUM * Venetian Casino Resort, LLC (Venetian) appeals the district court’s denial of its emergency motion for a stay of state court proceedings pursuant to the All Writs Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1651 (1949).1 We affirm. *87Putting aside whether the district court’s order to arbitrate was a final judgment