RICHIE v. AMERICAN COUNCIL ON GIFT ANNUITIES

Civil Action No. 7:94-CV-128-X.

943 F.Supp. 685 (1996)

Boyd L. RICHIE, et al, Plaintiffs, v. The AMERICAN COUNCIL ON GIFT ANNUITIES, et al, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Texas, Wichita Falls Division.

September 30, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lonny D. Morrison, Morrison & Shelton, Wichita Falls, TX, Ronald D Wells, Milner Lobel Goranson Sorrells Udashen & Wells, Dallas, TX, Scott Robert Jacobs, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Dallas, TX, Robert Elkin, Phillip N. Smith, Jr., Charles Watson Cunningham, McKool Smith, Dallas, TX, for Boyd L. Richie.

Glynn Purtle, Fillmore & Purtle, Wichita Falls, TX, Judy C. Norris, George C. Chapman, Gregory S. Huffman, William Mayer Katz, Jr, Thompson & Knight, Dallas, TX, for The American Council On Gift Annuities, Inc.

George C. Chapman, Gregory S. Huffman, Thompson & Knight, Dallas, TX, Walter Franklin Williams, David Wayne Prasifka, Lorance & Thompson, P.C., Houston, TX, Stephen Morris Briley, Banner Briley & White, Wichita Falls, TX, Richard T. McCarroll, Brown McCarroll & Oaks Hartline, Austin, TX, Walter Hiram Mizell, Brown McCarroll & Oaks Hartline, Dallas, TX, Walter F. Williams, III, Lorance & Thompson, P.C., Houston, TX, for The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.

Richard T. McCarroll, Brown, McCarroll & Oaks Hartline, Austin, TX, Walter Hiram Mizell, Brown, McCarroll & Oaks Hartline, Dallas, TX, Roy T. Sparkman, Sparkman & Davison, Wichita Falls, TX, for Lutheran Church Missouri Synod Texas District, Lutheran Foundation of Texas.

Walter Franklin Williams, David Wayne Prasifka, Lorance & Thompson, P.C., Houston, TX, Stephen Morris Briley, Banner Briley & White, Wichta Falls, TX, Walter F. Williams, Lorance & Thompson, P.C., Houston, TX, for Concordia Lutheran College.

Richard T. McCarroll, Brown, McCarroll & Oaks Hartline, Austin, TX, Walter Hiram Mizell, Brown, McCarroll & Oaks Hartline, Dallas, TX, Roy T Sparkman, Sparkman & Davison, Wichita Falls, TX, for Gerald Bryan Kieschnick, Glenn Pittsford, Carl A. Heckmann, Glenn O'Shonney.

Walter Franklin Williams, David Wayne Prasifka, Lorance & Thompson, P.C., Houston, TX, Stephen Morris Briley, Banner Briley & White, Wichita Falls, TX, for Fred A. Bleeke.

Rod Phelan, Baker & Botts, Dallas, TX, Richard G. Braman, Gray, Plant, Mooty, Mooty & Bennett, P.A., Minneapolis, MN, for Gray, Plant, Mooty, Mooty & Bennett.

Charles Murray Barnard, Law Office of Charles M Barnard, Wichita Falls, TX, Alexander Halpern, Caplan and Earnest L.L.C., Boulder, CO, for University of Colorado Foundation, Inc.

George Randle Earle, Biggers Beasley Earle & Hightower, Dallas, TX, Patrick Ray Cowlishaw, Robert M. Cohan, Kurt Allen Schwarz, Cohan Simpson Cowlishaw & Wulff, Dallas, TX, for amicus curiae, Salvation Army.

George Walter Bramblett, Jr., Noel M.B. Hensley, Kerry McHugh Breaux, Haynes & Boone, Dallas, TX, for Baptist Foundation of Texas.

Robert C. Walters, Russell Ray Yager, Scott Wayne Breedlove, Vinson & Elkins, Dallas, TX, Richard Thomas Sutherland, Law Office of Richard T. Sutherland, Wichita Falls, TX, for American Bible Society, The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.

Robert Richard Roby, James Allen Harrison, Russell Hendrix Roden, Gwinn & Roby, Dallas, TX, James D. Jordan, Guenther & Jordan, Nashville, TN, for Southern Baptist Convention.

Mark W. Bayer, William G. Whitehill, Elaine A. Murphy, Gardere & Wynne, Dallas, TX, Robert J. Brookhiser, Jr., Howrey & Simon, Washington, D.C. for U.S.

Susan Abbott Schwartz, Robin Foret, Landau Omahana & Kopka, Dallas, TX, for General Conference Corporation of Seventh-Day Adventists, Loma Linda University.

John Hess McElhaney, Susan Louise Karamanian, Michael James Boydston, Locke Purnell Rain & Harrell, Dallas, TX, for Anderson University, Inc., Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, Vassar College, St. Olaf College.

William Gray Compton, Arter Hadden Johnson & Bromberg, Dallas, TX, Oldrich Foucek, III, Tallman, Hudders & Sorrentino, P.C., Allentown, PA, for Good Shepherd Home Foundation.

Geraldine M. Alexis, Kirby H. Lewis, Sidley & Austin, Chicago, IL, Van Jackson Hooker, Jay Vogelson, Stutzman & Bromberg, Dallas, TX, for Northwestern University.

Thomas D. Graber, Hutcheson & Grundy, Dallas, TX, Charles Imlay Appler, Bennett & Weston, Dallas, TX, for American Baptist Foundation, American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, Evangelical Lutheran Church In America.

James Donald Blume, Law Office of James D. Blume, Dallas, TX, Donald C. Clark, Jr., Clark & DeGrand, Chicago, IL, for United Church of Christ.

Judy C. Norris, George C. Chapman, Gregory S. Huffman, Thompson & Knight, Dallas, TX, for Planned Giving Services, Inc, Planned Giving Resouces, Prerau & Teitell.

Robert C. Walters, Vinson & Elkins, Dallas, TX, for American Leprosy Missions.

Patricia Jane Villareal, Chrysta Osborn Castaneda, Jones Day Reavis & Pogue, Dallas, TX, for Hay-Huggins Company, Inc.

John Hess McElhaney, Susan Louise Karamanian, Michael James Boydston, Locke Purnell Rain & Harrell, Dallas, TX, Roger E. Bloomfield, Law Office of Roger E. Bloomfield, Dayton, OH, for Wittenberg University.

George Walter Bramblett, Jr, Noel M.B. Hensley, Kerry McHugh Breaux, Haynes & Boone, Dallas, TX, for Baptist Foundation of Texas.

Robert Richard Roby, James Allen Harrison, Russell Hendrix Roden, Gwinn & Roby, Dallas, TX, for Southern Baptist Convention.

Patricia Jane Villareal, Chrysta Osborn Castaneda, Jones Day Reavis & Pogue, Dallas, TX, for Hay-Huggins Co., Inc.

James Donald Blume, Law Office of James D. Blume, Dallas, TX, Donald C. Clark, Jr., Clark & DeGrand, Chicago, IL, for United Church of Christ.

Rod Phelan, Baker & Botts, Dallas, TX, Richard G. Braman, Gray, Plant, Mooty, Mooty & Bennett, P.A., Minneapolis, MN, for Gray, Plant, Mooty, Mooty & Bennett.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

KENDALL, District Judge.

Now before the Court are:

1) Plaintiff's February 13, 1996 Motion for Leave to File Fourth Amended Class Action Complaint; 2) Defendants' December 14, 1995 Motion to Dismiss; 3) Defendant's August 27, 1996 Renewed Motion for Relief; 4) Defendant Northwestern University's January 26, 1996 Motion for Summary Judgment1;

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