JONES

v.

CIVILETTI, ATTORNEY GENERAL, ET AL.; GRINAN V. GIEGOLD; HANCE V. GEORGIA

Citator

Cited By

• Hance v. Zant, 696 F.2d 940 (11th Cir. 1983)
  …five years’ imprisonment for attempted extortion. , The Supreme Court of Georgia affirmed the convictions and sentences. Hance v. State, 245 Ga. 856, 268 S.E. 2d 339, cert. denied, 449 U.S. 1067, 101 S.Ct. 796, 66 L.Ed.2d 611 (1980), reh’g denied, 449 U.S. 1135, 101 S.Ct. 958, 67 L.Ed.2d 122 (1981). Hance’s petition for habeas corpus was dismissed by the Superior Court of Butts County, Georgia, after a hearing. The Supreme Court of Georgia denied petitioner’s application for a certificate of probable cause…
• Goldstein v. Kelleher, 728 F.2d 32 (1st Cir. 1984)
  …“the trial court will be found to have abused its discretion only if it refused to grant a new trial when the verdict was against the clear weight of the evidence.” Johnson v. A/S Ivarans Rederi, 613 F. 2d 334, 351 (1st Cir. 1980), cert. dismissed, 449 U.S. 1135, 101 S.Ct. 959, 67 L.Ed.2d 325 (1981). Damages are an element of plaintiff’s case and must not be merely speculative. Newton v. Rockwood & Co., 261 F.Supp. 485, 488 (D.Mass.1966), aff’d, 378 F. 2d 315 (1st Cir.1967); Lufkin’s Real Estate, Inc. v. A…
• Computer Sys. Eng'g, Inc. v. Qantel Corp., 740 F.2d 59 (1st Cir. 1984)
  …ony of CSE’s president.11 “A motion for a new trial is directed to the sound discretion of the trial court, and will be reversed only for abuse of that discretion.” Johnson v. A/S Ivarans Rederi, 613 F. 2d 334, 351 (1st Cir. 1980), cert. dismissed, 449 U.S. 1135, 101 S.Ct. 959, 67 L.Ed.2d 325 (1981); see also Allied Chemical Corp. v. Daiflon, Inc., 449 U.S. 33, 36, 101 S.Ct. 188, 190, 66 L.Ed.2d 193 (1980) (per curiam); Jay Edwards, Inc. v. New England Toyota Distributor, 708 F. 2d at 824. We cannot say tha…