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Parties Involved:
Central Intelligence Agency
Appellee
Leonard (NMI) Rivera
Appellant

Document Text:

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT 

FEB 1 4 1992 

ROBERT L. HOECY..EE 

LEONARD (NMI) RIVERA, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, 

v. 

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, 

Defendant-Appellee. 

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No. 91-3280 

(D.C. No. 91-CV-3103) 

(D. Kansas) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

Before MOORE, TACHA, and BRORBY, Circuit Judges. 

After examining the briefs and appellate record, this panel 

has determined unanimously that oral argument would not materially 

assist the determination of this appeal. See Fed. R. App. P . 

34(a); 10th Cir. R. 34.1 . 9. The cause is therefore ordered 

submitted without oral argument. 

Leonard Rivera filed a complaint in the district court 

alleging he furnished the CIA ideas for the manufacture of "Music 

Televisi on, An Uzi, Cookie Crisp Cereal, Pert Shampoo and 

*This order and judgment has no precedential value and shall not 

be cited, or used by any court wi thin the Tenth Circuit, except 

for purposes of establishing the doctrines of the law of the case, 

res judicata, or collateral estoppel. 10th Cir. R. 36.3. 

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Conditioner," but the CIA paid him no royalties for those ideas. 

He did not assert, however, that he had a contract with the CIA or 

that the defendant agreed to pay him for his ideas. The district 

court dismissed the suit as frivolous. We AFFIRM. 

Williams, 490 U.S. 319 (1989). 

Entered for the Court 

John P. Moore 

Circuit Judge 

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