PARIS ET AL.

v.

METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE CO. ET AL.

Citator

Cited By

• United States v. French, 628 F.2d 1069 (8th Cir. 1980)
  …4th Cir. 1974) (per curiam) (payment by property owner in return for county council member’s use of influence to obtain occupancy permit for property despite building code violations); Ladner v. United States, 168 F. 2d 771 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 335 U.S. 827, 69 S.Ct. 53, 93 L.Ed. 381 (1948) (conspiracy to extort payments in return for failure to prosecute unlawful acts); People v. Sheridan, 186 A.D. 211, 174 N.Y.S. 327 (1919) (extortion by elevator inspector demanding payment in return for failure to r…
• Buchanan v. United States, 305 F.2d 738 (8th Cir. 1962)
  …W. 2d 403, 406, 33 A.L.R.2d 1. It has been said, too, that the burden is upon the plaintiff to show that his case comes within an exception to the rule of non-liability. Union Tank & Supply Co. v. Kelley, 5 Cir., 1948, 167 F. 2d 811, 815, cert. den. 335 U.S. 827, 69 S.Ct. 54, 93 L.Ed. 381; Terry v. A. P. Green Fire Brick Co., E.D.Ark., 1958, 164 F.Supp. 184, 188, appeal dismissed, 8 Cir., 268 F. 2d 213. The plaintiff has no quarrel with these propositions of Minnesota law. He argues that, accepting these p…
• United States v. Tormos-Vega, 959 F.2d 1103 (1st Cir. 1992)
  …371, as was done here. Indeed, the only difference that we can discern is favorable to Tormos Vega; § 1951 does not require proof of an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy, see Ladner v. United States, 168 F. 2d 771 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 335 U.S. 827, 69 S.Ct. 53, 93 L.Ed. 381 (1948), whereas § 371 — and the district court’s instructions in this case — do require proof of an overt act. C. Variance Both Tormos Vega and Boscio argue that the evidence presented at trial unlawfully varied from the…