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New Jersey Lawyer Search - Listings for Stacye Homes
Name: Stacye Homes
Address: 333 S Washington Ave Bergenfield, NJ 07621
Phone Number: 201-384-3456
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Real Estate Law
Wills, Estates, Trusts & Probate Law
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Cases related to this attorney's specialties:
REED, GORDON v. LANDSTAR LIGON INC. FILED United States Court of Appeals 1000 Tenth Circuit DEC 11 2002 PATRICK FISHER Clerk PUBLISH UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS TENTH CIRCUIT KIRK REED and JENNIFER GORDON, Parents of Travis Reed, Deceased, Plaintiffs - Appellants, v. No. 01-7056 LANDSTAR LIGON INC., a corporation, JACK PIERCE TRUCKING CO., and DONALD LEE LAMBERTSON, Defendants - Appellees. APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF OKLAHOMA (D.C. No. 00-CV-397-P) Edward J. Kionka (S. Daniel George, Sallisaw Oklahoma, and H. Ray Hodnett, Van Buren, Arkansas, with him on the briefs), Carbondale, Illinois, for Plaintiffs-Appellants. Joseph R. Farris (Jody R. Nathan with him on the brief), Feldman, Franden, Woodard & Farris, Tulsa, Oklahoma, for Defendants-Appellees. Before MURPHY, ANDERSON, and BALDOCK, Circuit Judges. BALDOCK, Circuit Judge. This is a negligence action brought in federal court under diversity jurisdiction. See 28 U.S.C. 1332. Plaintiffs' fifteen-year-old son, Travis Reed, was driving an all terrain vehicle on a rural road in Oklahoma when a truck driven by Defendant Lambertson struck and killed him. A jury returned a verdict for $500,000, and apportioned sixty percent fault to the truck driver and forty percent fault to Travis, resulting in an overall verdict for Plaintiffs for $300,000. Plaintiffs appeal only the jury's apportionment of fault, arguing the district court improperly instructed the jury that the all terrain vehicle was illegally on the road at the time of the accident. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. 1291. We affirm. I. In April 2000, Plaintiffs attended a family gathering in rural farm country in Oklahoma. Plaintiffs' son, Travis Reed, wanted to drive his grandfather's all terrain vehicle (ATV) to his aunt's home nearby. After receiving permission to take the ATV, Travis drove it down the driveway and onto the roadway. On the road, a hill prevented easy observation of oncoming traf...
USA v. MYERS FILED United States Court of Appeals 1000 Tenth Circuit MAR 29 2004 PATRICK FISHER Clerk PUBLISH UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS TENTH CIRCUIT IN RE WESLEY ALLEN MYERS and SONJA DIANE MYERS, Debtors. _ UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, on behalf of the Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency, Appellant, v. No. 02-2350 WESLEY ALLEN MYERS, SONJA DIANE MYERS, and RONALD E. HOLMES, Trustee, Appellees. ON APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY APPELLATE PANEL OF THE TENTH CIRCUIT (B.A.P. No. NM-02-035) (284 B.R. 478) Edward Himmelfarb, Appellate Staff Civil Division, Department of Justice (Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Washington, D.C., David C. Iglesias, United States Attorney, Albuquerque, N.M., and William Kanter, Appellate Staff Civil Division, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., with him on the briefs), Washington, D.C., for Appellant. George M. Moore, George M. Moore & Associates, Albuquerque, N.M., for Appellees. Before LUCERO, BALDOCK, and TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judges. BALDOCK, Circuit Judge. In March 2000, Wesley Allen Myers and Sonja Diane Myers (Debtors) filed a Chapter 12 bankruptcy petition in the United States Bankruptcy Court. The Farm Service Agency (FSA), an agency within the United States Department of Agriculture, filed a motion for relief from the automatic stay to setoff government program payments owed to Debtors. The bankruptcy court denied the FSA's motion, holding administrative regulations prohibited setoff. On appeal, the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel (BAP) affirmed on alternative grounds, focusing on 553 of the Bankruptcy Code. In re Myers, 284 B.R. 478 (B.A.P. 10th Cir. 2002). Section 553 provides in relevant part: [T]his title does not affect any right of a creditor to offset a mutual debt owing by such creditor to the debtor that arose before the commencement of the case under this title against a claim of such creditor against the debtor that arose before the commencement of the case[.] 11 U...
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