OZEE v. AMERICAN COUNCIL ON GIFT ANNUITIES, INC.

Nos. 96-11332, 96-11439.

110 F.3d 1082 (1997)

Dorothy L. OZEE, acting individually as attorney in fact for Louise T. Peter, and as next friend for Louise T. Peter, on behalf of Louise T. Peter individually and all others similarly situated, Plaintiff, Boyd L. Richie, guardian of the estate of Louise T. Peter, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. The AMERICAN COUNCIL ON GIFT ANNUITIES, INC., individually and on behalf of its members, sponsors and all other similarly situated to them, and as successor to The Committee on Gift Annuities, an unincorporated association, et al., Defendants-Appellants, Dan Morales, Attorney General of Texas, Appellant. In re AMERICAN COUNCIL ON GIFT ANNUITIES, INC., et al., Petitioners.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing Denied May 21, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald David Wells, Dallas, TX, Scott Robert Jacobs, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, Dallas, TX, Lonny D. Morrison, Morrison & Shelton, Wichita Falls, TX, for Dorothy L. Ozee, Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Ruben Brochner, Charles W. Cunningham, McKool Smith, Dallas, TX, Robert R. Elkin, Wichita Falls, TX, for Richie, Plaintiff-Appellee.

Judy C. Norris, Thompson & Knight, Dallas, TX, for American Council of Gift Annuities, Inc., Lutheran Church of Missouri Synod Texas Dist., Planned Giving Services, Inc., Planned Giving Resources and Prerau & Teitell, Defendants-Appellants.

Gregory S.C. Huffman, George C. Chapman, Thompson & Knight, Dallas, TX, for American Council of Gift Annuities, Inc., Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, Planned Giving Services, Inc., Planned Giving Resources, and Prerau & Teitell, Defendants-Appellants.

Walter H. Mizell, Richard T. McCarroll, Brown McCarroll & Oaks Hartline, Austin, TX, for Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod Texas Dist., Lutheran Foundation of Texas and Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod Foundation, Defendants-Appellants.

Richard G. Braman, Minneapolis, MN, for Gray, Plant, Mooty, Mooty and Bennett, Defendant-Appellant.

Patrick R. Cowlishaw, Kurt Allen Schwarz, Cohan, Simpson, Cowlishaw & Wulff, Dallas, TX, for Salvation Army, a New York Corporation, Salvation Army, an Illinois Corporation, Salvation Army, a California Corporation, and Salvation Army, a Georgia Corporation, Defendants-Appellants.

Noel M.B. Hensley, George W. Bramblett, Jr., Haynes & Boone, Dallas, TX, for Baptist Foundation of Texas, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Defendant-Appellant.

Russell Hendrix Roden, James Allen Harrison, Gwinn & Roby, Dallas, TX, for Southern Baptist Convention, Defendant-Appellant.

Susan Abbott Schwartz, Land, Omahana & Kopka, Dallas, TX, for General Conference Corporation of Seventh-Day Adventists doing business as General Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists, and Loma Linda University, Defendants-Appellants.

Susan Louise Karamanian, John H. McElhaney, Dallas, TX, for Anderson University, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, Vassar College, St. Olaf College and Wittenberg University, Defendants-Appellants.

William Gray Compton, Dallas, TX, for Good Shepherd Home Foundation, Defendant-Appellant.

Jay M. Vogelson, Dallas, TX, Geraldine M. Alexis, Sidley & Austin, Chicago, IL, for Northwestern University, Defendant-Appellant.

Thomas D. Graber, Hutcheson & Grundy, Dallas, TX, for American Baptist Foundation, American Baptist Foreign Mission Society and Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Defendants-Appellants.

Charles Murray Barnard, Wichita Falls, TX, for University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Defendant-Appellant.

James D. Blume, Dallas, TX, for United Church of Christ, Defendant-Appellant.

Patricia J. Villareal, Chrysta L. Castaneda, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Dallas, TX, for Hay-Huggins Co., Inc., Defendant-Appellant.

Jan Soifer, Thomas P. Perkins, Jr., Austin, TX, for Dan Morales, Appellant.

George G. Olsen, Barnaby W. Zall, Williams & Jensen, P.C., Washington, DC, for United States Representative Henry J. Hyde and Other Members of the 104th Congress of the United States of America, amicus curiae.

Robert Junell, Carrollton, TX, pro se.

Kenny Marchant, Carrollton, TX, pro se.

John Montford, Carrollton, TX, pro se.

David Sibley, Carrollton, TX, pro se.

Before REAVLEY, SMITH and EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing En Banc Denied May 21, 1997.

JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:

This consolidated case consists of an appeal by the various above-listed defendants from the district court's denial of a motion to dismiss, a separate appeal by Northwestern University challenging the denial of summary judgment, a petition by the defendants for a writ of mandamus, an additional appeal by Texas Attorney General Dan Morales from the denial of...

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