WILLIAMSON POUNDERS ARCHITECTS PC v. TUNICA COUNTY

No. 09-60063.

597 F.3d 292 (2010)

WILLIAMSON POUNDERS ARCHITECTS PC, Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross-Appellee, v. TUNICA COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, Its Board of Supervisors and Its Board of Members; James Dunn; Cedric Burnett; Paul Battle, III; Curtis Jackson; Billy Pegram, Defendants-Appellee-Cross-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

February 9, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey A. Land (argued), Jeffrey A. Land & Associates, Memphis, TN, Mary Leslie Davis, William Oliver Luckett, Jr. Atty. Advisor, Luckett Tyner Law Firm, P.A., Clarksdale, MS, for Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross-Appellee.

Mark D. Herbert (argued), Bradford Coleman Ray, Watkins, Ludlam, Winter & Stennis, P.A., Jackson, MS, for Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants.

Before REAVLEY, CLEMENT and SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judges.


LESLIE H. SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judge:

This suit is about choice of law. The choices are the law of Mississippi and that of Tennessee. We must choose because an architectural firm brought suit against a Mississippi county and its governing board under a contract that made Tennessee's law controlling. The Mississippi district court granted summary judgment in favor of the county, finding the contract's choice was overridden by the public policy of the State in which suit...

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