Cases

MEMORANDUM ** Brian Richard Schweitzer was convicted in 2001 of assault upon a federal officer in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 111. He now appeals from the district court’s decision to revoke his supervised release and sentence him to twenty-four months’ imprisonment. Schweitzer claims that, because the warrant for his arrest was not based on sworn allegations, the district court lacked jur

ORDER ON CROSS-MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT DONALD M. MIDDLEBROOKS, UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT THIS CAUSE comes before the Court on cross-motions for summary judgment. (DE 24 and 50). The motions are fully briefed and the Parties have submitted their Joint Pretrial Stipulation (DE 75). For reasons stated below, Defendant’s Motion for Summary Judgment is granted and Plaintiffs Motion for Su

BENTON, Circuit Judge. Gerald Lee DeCoteau was found guilty of gross sexual imposition in 1996 and sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment. His habeas petition in November 2012 had six claims. The district court 1 dismissed the petition, finding four claims were time-barred, one was procedurally barred, and the other lac

These consolidated appeals raise this question: Should an indigent person, in a civil action, be required to post a statutorily-required bond in order to appeal an adverse judgment from a lower court to the circuit court? We hold that the bond required to be posted by statute is necessary; therefore, we affirm the Circuit Judge's refusal to mandamus the lower judge to order him to permit the appeal to be taken even though the appellant had not posted the bond. The appeal here

391 B.R. 281 (2008) In re Keith A. KARTMAN, Debtor. Morton F. Schweitzer and Sally Schweitzer, Plaintiffs, v. Keith A. Kartman, Defendant. Bankruptcy No. 07-26242-MBM. Adversary No. 08-2010-MBM. United States Bankruptcy Court, W.D. Pennsylvania. July 15, 2008. *282 Jon M. Lewis, Greensburg, PA, for Morton and Sally Schweitzer

In the Court of Appeals Second Appellate District of Texas at Fort Worth ___________________________ No. 02-25-00598-CV ___________________________ IN THE ESTATE OF RALPH ALFRED SCHWEITZER, DECEASED On Appeal from Probate Court No. 2 Tarrant County, Texas Trial Court No. 2025-PR00848-2 Before Wallach, J.; Sudderth, C.J.; and Walker

955 F.Supp. 1377 (1997) Spring WALKER, Plaintiff, v. TOOLPUSHERS SUPPLY CO., Black Hills Trucking, Inc., Belle Fourche Pipeline Co., True Drilling Co., True Oil Co., which are all part of a conglomerate known as True Companies, Defendants. No. 96-CV-1029-J. United States District Court, D. Wyoming. February 10, 1997. *1378 Randal

224 B.R. 664 (1998) In re UNR INDUSTRIES, INC., Unarco Industries, Inc., UNR, Inc., UNR-ROHN, Inc. (Alabama), UNR-ROHN, Inc. (Indiana), Jobal Tube Co., Inc., UNR Products, Inc., and Folding Carrier Corp., Debtors. UNR INDUSTRIES, INC., Plaintiff, v. James WALKER, Ernest Frost, Linda Frost, Cary Stewart, Judy Stewart, Robert Hendricks, and Catherine Hendricks, Defendants. Bankruptcy No. 82 B 9841-9845, 82 B 9847, 82 B 984

Action in equity for an accounting. The circuit court rendered judgment for the defendant, except as to one item of $25.50, for which plaintiffs had judgment. Plaintiffs have appealed. The suit was brought by Paris M. Walker, Marian Garrard and Nancy Hagood, as trustees and beneficiaries, plaintiffs, against Albert R. James, defendant. Since the trial below James has died and his administrator has been substituted as defendant. Marian *Page 755 Garrard, o

Hudgins, J., dissenting. The dominant question presented in this record is whether the owners or the highest bidder at the auction sale is entitled to the difference between $17,900, the amount of the bid, and $30,000, the market value of the property ascertained between the date of the auction and the date the sale was asked to be confirmed. The majority opinion emphasizes the efforts of this

Complainants sue as vendors to compel specific performance by defendant vendee of a contract for the sale of a lot at Westfield, New Jersey, at the price of $1,200. The defense is that the premises are subject to two alleged encumbrances and that the title is therefore unmarketable. There is no dispute as to the facts. On a motion to strike the answer as frivolous, a stipulation of facts was filed by consent and the case was submitted as on final hearing. The lot in quest

WADDILL, Commissioner. The claims asserted in this action arose out of an accident, involving the automobiles driven by appellant Walker and ap-pellee Farmer, which occurred near the center of the intersection of Twelfth and Hill Streets in Louisville. Walker was operating his automobile west on Hill Street and Farmer was driving his automobile ■ north on Twelfth Street. Each of these men was alone in his car and each testifie

Appellants filed their bill in the circuit court of Warren county seeking to set aside a deed executed by them and delivered to appellee in exchange for certain bank stock. The bill charged that appellants, as husband and wife, were owners of a certain 80-acre tract of land in Henderson *Page 337 county, Illinois, and that on May 21, 1923, they were induced to trade the same to appellee for thirty-five shares of bank stock of the State Bank of Kirkwood; t

Smith, J. This is a suit in ejectment for two inches of ground and by consent was transferred to the chancery court, where upon the final submission the court made the following findings of fact: “That prior to the erection of the defendant’s wall complained of, the plaintiff gave oral permission to the defendant to build his said wall upon the west two inches of her lot desc

This is an action for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff as a coal miner while in the employment of the defendant in a coal mine in the State of Kansas. The case was tried to a jury in the Circuit Court of Jackson County, Missouri, resulting in a verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the sum of fifty thousand dollars, from which the defendant appeals. The action was based upon the statutes of the State of Kansas, which require that "every mine shall be supplied with sufficient

PRELIMINARY STATEMENT CHILSON, District Judge. The appellants will be referred to herein as “plaintiffs” and the appellees as “defendants”. In the fall of 1977, the plaintiffs enrolled as students at the University of Oklahoma. They received basketball athletic scholarships under an agreement which" provided “This award may be renewe

Andrews C. J. The defendant was prosecuted before a justice of the peace in the town of Milford, under section 3402 of the General Statutes? for unlawfully neglecting and refusing to support his wife, and was convicted. He appealed to the criminal side of the Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County. In the latter court he demurred to the complaint, on the ground that it merely charged the defendant with neglecting and refusing

*261OPINION OF THE COURT Melvin L. Schweitzer, J. In this action to collect under an excess insurance policy, defendant RSUI Indemnity Company moves, pursuant to CPLR 3211 (a) (1) and (7), for an order dismissing the complaint. Background Plaintiff Forest Laboratories, Inc. was insured under an excess policy of in

MEMORANDUM OPINION COLLEEN KOLLAR-KOTELLY, District Judge. Presently before the Court is Plaintiff/Counterclaim Defendant Leigh Adam Slaughter’s [33] Motion to Dismiss Defendant Alpha Drugs, LLC’s Counterclaim. Slaughter filed suit against her former employer Defendant Alpha Drugs, LLC (“Alpha Drugs”) and Defendant Panagiotis Metaxotos, the President and ow

768 F.Supp.2d 121 (2011) Gavin M. CHEN and Sara J. Lee, Plaintiffs, v. Jewell BELL-SMITH, Darryl A. Smith, EK Settlements, Inc., Sandy Kim, Ocwen Loan Servicing, and HSBC Bank USA, N.A., Defendants. Civil Action No. 08-0999 (JDB). United States District Court, District of Columbia. March 8, 2011. *126 Dawn R. Anderson-Jackson, Ba