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521 F.3d 983 (2008) Roger R. NOLAN, Appellant, v. Dana D. THOMPSON; Fannie Gaw; Wayne Crump; Ansel P. Card; Robert Robinson; Penny Hubbard; Jane/John Does, All members of Probation and Parole for the State of Missouri Department of Corrections; Reid Forrester, Appellees. No. 07-1366. United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit. Submitted: November 15, 2007.

MEMORANDUM OPINION DAVID P. McDONALD, Bankruptcy Judge. Jerome Ruffin filed this adversary complaint requesting the Court to determine that the debt Larry and Josephine Soberg (collectively the “Sobergs”) owe him is excepted from discharge under 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(2). The Sobergs filed a motion for summary judgment asserting that they are not liable for the underlying debt in question. The Court agre

LOKEN, Circuit Judge. Roger Roy Nolan, who is serving a life sentence for killing a kidnap victim, appeals the denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Nolan argues that the district court 1 erred in ruling that two of his habeas claims are procedurally barred and that ineffective assistance of counsel did no

836 S.W.2d 490 (1992) STATE of Missouri, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. John W. WILLIAMSON, Defendant-Appellant. John W. WILLIAMSON, Movant-Appellant, v. STATE of Missouri, Respondent-Respondent. Nos. 58421, 59793. Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Division Three. July 14, 1992. Motion for Rehearing and/or Transfer Denied August 12, 1992.

JOSEPH J. SIMEONE, Senior Judge. This case is an original proceeding in mandamus to compel the Honorable David A. Dalton, Presiding Judge of the 11th Judicial Circuit to reassign the Honorable Lester W. Duggan, Jr., the judge who originally took pleas of guilty from relator, as the judge to preside over relator’s probation revocation proceedings. We have jurisdiction. Mo. Const. Art. V., § 4. We issued our preliminary order

JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge. John Czajka and Mike Lozano jointly appeal 1 both from a district court2 order denying their motion for new trial and adverse jury verdicts in their actions brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1982). In their suits, they allege that during, and shortly after, a disturbance at the Missouri State Penitentiary, various corrections officers vi

ORDER PER CURIAM. ABC Cab Company and Billy Joe Crab-tree appeal from the trial court’s declaratory judgment in favor of respondent Group Underwriters Mutual Insurance Company. We affirm. An extended opinion would serve no jurisprudential purpose. The parties have been furnished with a memorandum for their information only setting forth the reasons for our order affirming the judgment pursuant to Rule 84.1

Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cole County; Byron L. Kinder, Judge. William L. Webster, Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, Philip M. Koppe, Asst. Atty. Gen., Kansas City, for respondent. Before MANFORD, P.J., and KENNEDY and ULRICH, JJ. Direct appeal from a jury conviction for offering violence to a correctional officer, in violation of § 217.385, RSMo 1986. Judgment affi

HENLEY, Senior Circuit Judge. Michael Bender, individually and doing business as Betty’s Deli & Package Liquor (Betty’s Deli), appeals from the district court’s1 order, granting summary judgment in favor of the City of St. Ann, its mayor and budding commissioner, and members of the city’s Board of Aldermen (Board), in this civil rights action. 816 F.Supp. 1372. Bender challenged the constitut

ORDER PER CURIAM. Movant appeals denial of his Rule 24.035 motion after an extended hearing. He seeks relief from concurrent life sentences imposed according to negotiated guilty pleas to murder in the second degree, § 565.021.1 RSMo 1986, and armed criminal action, § 571.015.1 RSMo 1986. The original information charged movant with murder in the first degree, § 565.020.2 RSMo 1986 and armed criminal action.

PER CURIAM. The petition for extraordinary relief is denied. Petitioners complain of various actions of the District Court: allowing plaintiff to reinstate them as defendants on the eve of trial; requiring petitioner Ashcroft to be deposed on a week’s notice; and using its authority coercively to force a settlement. We are not persuaded that the high standard required for the gran

GRIMM, Judge. Plaintiff appeals from an order denying her motion to set aside a judgment dismissing her first amended petition with prejudice. We reverse. On appeal, plaintiff has addressed the numerous grounds raised in her motion for setting aside the judgment. One ground, however, is dispositive: the trial court abused its discretion in denying the motion to set aside, because’the circuit clerk did not

SMITH, Presiding Judge. Movant appeals from the denial, after evidentiary hearing, of his motion for post-conviction relief pursuant to former Rule 27.26. He had been convicted of two counts each of rape, robbery and kidnapping and one count of sodomy. He was sentenced to consecutive punishments of three terms of life imprisonment plus ninety years. His convictions were affirmed on appeal in State v. Conley, 699 S.W

CARL R. GAERTNER, Judge. Plaintiffs Inez and Gregory Tayborn appeal from a summary judgment in their medical malpractice action against Doctor Robert Burstein. We affirm. Dr. Burstein treated Inez Tayborn from August 1975 to February 1982. During this time, Mrs. Tayborn continually complained of a small lump in her left breast. The doctor repeatedly reassured her that it was not a problem. During 1981 she

FLOYD R. GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge. William Armontrout appeals the district court’s 1 order granting injunctive relief to inmates at the Jefferson County Correctional Center (“JCCC”). The inmates cross-appeal alleging the district court erred in directing verdicts in favor of nine defendants. We affirm. I. BACKGROUND The appellees are inmates and former

748 S.W.2d 766 (1988) STATE of Missouri, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Larry C. HOGAN, Defendant-Appellant. No. 53070. Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Division Three. February 16, 1988. Motion for Rehearing and/or Transfer to Denied March 23, 1988. Application to Transfer Denied May 17, 1988. *7

MEMORANDUM NANGLE, Chief Judge. This is an action by plaintiff seeking review of the sanction imposed upon plaintiff by defendant for violations of the Food Stamp Act, 7 U.S.C. § 2011 et seq. This case was tried to this Court sitting without a jury. This Court having considered the pleadings, the testimony of the witnesses, the documents in evidence, and the stipulations of th

PREWITT, Judge. Following nonjury trial defendant David Mansfield was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment without eligibility for probation or parole. After he was sentenced Mansfield filed a direct appeal (No. 15934) and a Rule 29.15 motion. His motion was denied after an evidentiary hearing. Mansfield appeals (No. 16444) from that denial. Pursuant to 29.15(l), the appeals have been consolida

TITUS, Judge. Donna, the natural mother of Kevin, born October 4, 1978, was 17 years old at the time of her son’s birth. She now appeals from the May 25, 1983, order of the Juvenile Court of Butler County terminating her parental rights to Kevin. § 211.-482.1 Our resolution of this appeal has been made more onerous than necessary by the misaction and nonaetion of various inter

15 B.R. 913 (1981) In re Larry James HALL and Carolyn Hall, Debtors. David A. GILL, Appellant, v. Larry James HALL and Carolyn Hall, Appellees. BAP No. CC-81-1004-KHG. United States Bankruptcy Appellate Panels of the Ninth Circuit. Argued April 16, 1981. Decided December 4, 1981. *914 Jeanene Moenckmeier, St.