PATTERSON v. WHITLOCK

No. 08-2219.

JOYCE E. PATTERSON, as Administratix of the Estate of Yolanda Evett Patterson Hemphill, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. D. WHITLOCK; TERRY SULT; CITY OF GASTONIA; JENNIFER STULTZ; GASTON COUNTY; ALAN CLONINGER; JAN WINTERS; GASTON COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SERVICES; WATSON INSURANCE AGENCY, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: August 23, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Pamela Anne Hunter, Charlotte, North Carolina, for Appellant.

Martha Raymond Thompson, STOTT, HOLLOWELL, PALMER & WINDHAM, Gastonia, North Carolina, for Appellees.

ON BRIEF: James C. Windham, Jr., STOTT, HOLLOWELL, PALMER & WINDHAM, Gastonia, North Carolina; Robert D. McDonnell, LAW OFFICE OF ROBERT McDONNELL, Charlotte, North Carolina, for Appellees.

Dismissed in part, reversed in part, and remanded by unpublished per curiam opinion.


Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

PER CURIAM:

In August 2006, appellant Joyce E. Patterson filed this civil action in North Carolina state court on behalf of her deceased daughter's estate. Following removal of the action to the Western District of North Carolina, the district court dismissed Patterson's thirty-eight-count complaint (the "Complaint") for insufficient process. In relevant part, the court deemed process...

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