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ORDER AND REASONS NANNETTE JOLIVETTE BROWN, District Judge. In this litigation, Plaintiff Board of Commissioners of the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority — East (“Plaintiff’) seeks damages and injunctive relief against ninety-two oil and gas companies whose actions have allegedly caused erosion of coastal lands, leaving south Louisiana increasingly exposed to tropical storms and hurri

78 F.Supp.2d 1142 (1999) Marian ROBERTSON, Paula Ace, Betty L. Anderson, Clinton Coffin, Jeff Littlefield, Bruce E. Snelson, Vince Talty, Timothy W. Willert, Mary Ann Wooldridge, Travis Hodge, Vicki Nida, Scott Mellinger, Janis Mayhan, and Tracy Robinson Plaintiffs, v. The BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE COUNTY OF MORGAN, Defendant. Civil Action No. 96-B-629. United States District Court, D. Color

[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] *Page 393 Complainants, twelve in number, were principals or teachers in various schools of Marshall County during the scholastic year 1939-40. They file this bill on behalf of themselves and other teachers similarly situated, seeking specific performance of their employment contracts for the scholastic year of 1940-41, a r

OPINION SHEPARD, Senior Judge. The Hamilton County Airport Authority owns an airport located next door in Boone County, within the Town of Zionsville. The Authority contends that it is not subject to any Boone County zoning or to the covenants it executed to obtain airport zoning from Boone County. The trial court agreed. The Ind

41 F.Supp.2d 965 (1999) Jody BAKER, et al., Plaintiffs, v. STONE COUNTY, MISSOURI, et al., Defendants. No. 96-5084-CV-SW-1. United States District Court, W.D. Missouri, Southwestern Division. March 16, 1999. *966 *967 *968 *969

Rel: December 16, 2022 Notice: This opinion is subject to formal revision before publication in the advance sheets of Southern Reporter. Readers are requested to notify the Reporter of Decisions, Alabama Appellate Courts, 300 Dexter Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36104-3741 ((334) 229-0650), of any typographical or other errors, in order that corrections may be made before the opinion is published in Southern Reporter. Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals

This is an appeal by appellants Montgomery County, Texas, its Tax Assessor-Collector, members of its Commissioners' Court and its County Attorney, from an order of the Special Ninth District Court of Montgomery County, by which order said District Court upon the suit of appellee Humble Oil Refining Company, enjoined them by a temporary writ of injunction from collecting or attempting to collect any taxes for the year 1950 from appellee, except upon the valuations as rendered by appell

OPINION LEANNE JOHNSON, Justice This is an accelerated appeal of an interlocutory order denying a plea to the jurisdiction. See Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code Ann. § 51.014(a)(8) (West Supp. 2016); Tex. R. App. P. 28.1(a). Appellants, the City of Willis (the City), Leonard Reed in his official capacity as Mayor of the City, James Nowak in his official capacity as

The first contention is that Judge A. E. Gamble, judge of the Second judicial circuit, who presided at the trial, was without legal right to do so, for the reason that he was requested to hold the court in Escambia county by Hon. John D. Leigh, the presiding judge of the circuit, instead of having been designated by some other method prescribed in other statutes. It has too long been the accepted law of this state, to now admit of controversy, that circuit judges have and may exercise the sam

632 F.Supp.2d 1246 (2008) COREY AIRPORT SERVICES, INC., Plaintiff, v. The CITY OF ATLANTA, et al., Defendants. Civil Action No. 1:04-CV-3243-CAP. United States District Court, N.D. Georgia, Atlanta Division. September 30, 2008. *1254 Griffin B. Bell, Jr., Fisher & Phillips, Joseph Matthew Maguire, Jr., Michael J. Bowers, Balc

502 S.E.2d 161 (1998) 28 Va. App. 100 CITY OF HOPEWELL and Virginia Municipal Group Self-Insurance Association v. Michael W. TIRPAK. Record No. 1369-97-2. Court of Appeals of Virginia, Richmond. July 28, 1998. *164 S. Vernon Priddy, III (Sands, Anderson, Marks & Miller, on briefs), Richmond, for appell

McCONNELL, Circuit Judge. This case involves one of the more contentious land use issues in the West: the legal status of claims by local governments to rights of way for the construction of highways across federal lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). In 1866, Congress passed an open-ended grant of “the right of way for the construction of highways over public lands, not reserved for public uses.” Act of Jul

07-17-00458CV ACCEPTED SEVENTH COURT OF APPEALS AMARILLO, TEXAS 3/23/2018 4:00 PM Vivian Long, Clerk APPELLATE NO. 07-17-00458-CV IN THE COURT OF APPEALS FILED IN 7th COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICTAMARILLO, TEXAS

69 So.2d 709 (1953) WATER WORKS & SANITARY SEWER BOARD OF MONTGOMERY et al. v. SULLIVAN et al. 3 Div. 664. Supreme Court of Alabama. November 5, 1953. Modified on Rehearing January 15, 1954. *711 Walter J. Knabe, Montgomery, for appellants. Godbold & Hobbs, Montgomery, for appellees. PER CUR

[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] *Page 233 This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff, George L. Moulton, rendered in his suit against the City of Prichard. The jury assessed damages at $10,341.84, and the judgment was entered pursuant to the jury verdict. The plaintiff is a duly licensed engineer practicing his profession in

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PER CURIAM. Gregory Lance Henderson was convicted of capital murder under § 13A-5-40(a)(6), Ala. Code 1975, for the intentional murder of an on-duty law-enforcement officer, Deputy James Anderson. At sentencing, the jury completed a series of special interrogatories regarding aggravating circumstances pursuant to § 13A-5-49, Ala. Code 1975, and found unanimously that the capital murder was committed while Henderson was under sentenc

565 F.3d 1258 (2009) John Forrest PARKER, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Richard F. ALLEN, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, Respondent-Appellee. No. 05-16907. United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit. April 20, 2009. *1264 Thomas J. Saunders (Court-Appointed), Law Office of Thomas J. Saunders, Baltimore, MD, for

Case: 17-14570 Date Filed: 07/13/2020 Page: 1 of 56 [PUBLISH] IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ________________________ No. 17-14570 ________________________ D.C. Docket No. 2:02-cv-00777-WKW-SRW DONALD DALLAS,

WELCH, Judge. The appellant, Calvin McMillan, an inmate on death row at Holman Correctional Facility, appeals the circuit court's summary dismissal of his Rule 32, Ala. R. Crim. P., petition for postconviction relief attacking his capital-murder conviction and sentence of death. In 2009, McMillan was convicted of murdering James Bryan Martin during the