BURDEN v. YATES

No. 80-7349.

644 F.2d 503 (1981)

Frank BURDEN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Thomas Larry YATES and Marion H. Reece, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Unit B.

May 8, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bowen, Derrickson, Goldberg & West, Dwight Bowen, Ralph Goldberg, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiff-appellant.

Murray & Temple, Robert Stacy Hylton, Decatur, Ga., for Yates.

Before JONES, TJOFLAT and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.


TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:

The district court dismissed this case because of the plaintiff's failure to comply with an order of the court. We reverse and remand.

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Frank Burden filed this Motor Vehicle Information and Cost Savings Act case, 15 U.S.C. § 1981 et seq. (1976), on April 17, 1979. He appeals because the district court dismissed that suit when he failed to comply with a pretrial order. Appellant's actions in this case reveal, at...

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