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Oregon Lawyer Search - Listings for Aman David S Tonkon Torp Llp Attys
Name: Aman David S Tonkon Torp Llp Attys
Address: 888 SW 5th Ave Portland, OR 97204
Phone Number: 503-802-2053
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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...
USCA6 Opinion 03a0319p.06 RECOMMENDED FOR FULL-TEXT PUBLICATION Pursuant to Sixth Circuit Rule 206 ELECTRONIC CITATION: 2003 FED App. 0319P (6th Cir.) File Name: 03a0319p.06 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT _ H.C. MacClaren, Inc., Petitioner, v. United States Department of Agriculture, Respondent. No. 02-3006 On Appeal from an Order of the Secretary, United States Department of Agriculture. No. D-99-0012. Argued: June 11, 2003 Decided and Filed: September 4, 2003 Before: MOORE and GIBBONS, Circuit Judges; SCHWARZER, Senior District Judge.(*) _ COUNSEL ARGUED: Stephen P. McCarron, McCARRON & DIESS, Washington, D.C., for Petitioner. Stephen M. Reilly, OFFICE OF GENERAL COUNSEL, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, Washington, D.C., for Respondent. ON BRIEF: Stephen P. McCarron, McCARRON & DIESS, Washington, D.C., for Petitioner. Stephen M. Reilly, OFFICE OF GENERAL COUNSEL, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, Washington, D.C., for Respondent. _ OPINION _ JULIA SMITH GIBBONS, Circuit Judge. Petitioner H.C. MacClaren, Inc. (MacClaren), a wholesale produce broker, appeals a final order of the Secretary of Agriculture revoking its license pursuant...
GORMAN-BAKOS v CORNELL COOPERATIVE, U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of AppealsGORMAN-BAKOS v CORNELL COOPERATIVE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS For the Second Circuit _ Spring Term, 2001 (Argued: March 14, 2001 Decided: June 04, 2001) Docket No. 00-9012, 00-9104 _ Lynn Gorman-Bakos and Rodney Bakos, Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross-Appellees, -v.- Cornell Cooperative Extension of Schenectady County, Ellen Elliott, individually and as Executive Director of Cornell Cooperative Extension of Schenectady County, Angela Warner, individually and as agent, servant and employee of Cornell Cooperative Extension of Schenectady County, Mike Pierotti, individually and as President of Cornell Cooperative Extension of Schenectady County, Dorothy Foster, Bob Lindsay, Tim Manning, Marion Pierce, Jo Ann Rafilik, Steve Ras, Linda Rohmer, Sharon Sutton and Grace Underwood, individually and as directors of Cornell Cooperative Extension of Schenectady County, Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants. _ Before: Sotomayor, Katzmann, Circuit Judges, and Chin, District Judge.* _ Plaintiffs-Appellants appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York (Frederick J. Scullin, Jr., Chief Judge), granting defendants' motion for summary judgment because plaintiffs failed to offer sufficient proof of a causal connection between their allegedly constitutionally protected speech and their dismissal from defendants' 4-H program. Defendants-Cross-Appellants appeal the denial of their request for attorney's fees. The appeal is granted, and the judgment is vacated and remanded; the cross- appeal is denied as moot. _ L. John Van Norden, Schenectady, New York, for Plaintiffs-Appellants Lynn Gorman-Bakos and Rodney Bakos, Jeffrey T. Culkin, Gordon, Siegel, Mastro, Mullaney, Gordon & Galvin, P.C., Latham, New York, for Defendants-Appellees Cornell Cooperative Extension of Schenectady County, Ellen Elliott, individually and as Executive Director of Corne...
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