Document ID: s3://data.kl3m.ai/documents/govinfo/USCOURTS/USCOURTS-ca10-07-05048/USCOURTS-ca10-07-05048-0/pdf.json

Parties Involved:
Greg Abbott
Appellee
Angela S. Andrews
Not Party
Eddie L. Andrews
Not Party
Richard Andrews
Not Party
Robert J. Bryan
Appellee
Franklin D. Burgess
Appellee
CNA Surety
Appellee
Vincent Ralph Caligiuri
Not Party
Dwight L. Class
Not Party
Rodney Class
Appellant
Roy Cooper
Appellee
John Doe
Not Party
William F. Downes
Appellee
W.A. Drew Edmondson
Appellee
First National Bank
Appellee
Deborah J. Groom
Appellee
Joe Heaton
Appellee
Lawrence K. Karlton
Appellee
Bill Lockyer
Appellee
William McDonald
Not Party
Rob McKenna
Appellee
Maria Janet Moffit
Not Party
Betty Montgomery
Appellee
Delant Cory Palmerton
Not Party
Marsha J. Pechman
Appellee
Jim Petro
Appellee
Sherwood T. Rodrigues
Not Party
Gretchen C F Shappert
Appellee
State Justice Institute
Appellee
State of California
Appellee
State of North Carolina
Appellee
State of Ohio
Appellee
State of Oklahoma
Appellee
State of Texas
Appellee
State of Washington
Appellee
Bob Taft
Appellee
United States of America
Appellee
Westfield Insurance
Appellee
Carl Weston
Not Party

Document Text:

FILED

United States Court of Appeals

Tenth Circuit

December 6, 2007

Elisabeth A. Shumaker

Clerk of Court

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT

CARL WESTON,

Plaintiff-Appellant,

and

EDDIE L. ANDREWS; RODNEY

CLASS; ANGELA S. ANDREWS;

RICHARD ANDREWS; DWIGHT L.

CLASS; MARIA JANET MOFFIT;

SHERWOOD T. RODRIGUES;

WILLIAM MCDONALD; JOHN

DOE, Suing as: John and Jane Doe;

VINCENT RALPH CALIGIURI;

DELANT CORY PALMERTON,

Plaintiffs,

v.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA;

STATE JUSTICE INSTITUTE,

official capacity; STATE OF

OKLAHOMA; W.A. DREW

EDMONDSON, individual; STATE

OF OHIO; JIM PETRO, individual;

BETTY MONTGOMERY, individual;

BOB TAFT, individual; DEBORAH J.

GROOM, individual; WILLIAM F.

DOWNES, individual; MARSHA J.

PECHMAN, individual; ROBERT J.

BRYAN, individual; LAWRENCE K.

KARLTON, individual; FRANKLIN

D. BURGESS, individual; JOE

HEATON, individual; FIRST

NATIONAL BANK, official capacity;

No. 07-5026

(D.C. No. 06-CV-460-TCK-PJC)

(N.D. Okla.)

Appellate Case: 07-5048 Document: 010181167 Date Filed: 12/06/2007 Page: 1 
-2-

STATE OF WASHINGTON; ROB

MCKENNA, individual; STATE OF

CALIFORNIA; BILL LOCKYER,

individual; STATE OF TEXAS;

GREG ABBOTT, individual; STATE

OF NORTH CAROLINA; ROY

COOPER, individual; CNA SURETY,

official capacity; WESTFIELD

INSURANCE, official capacity;

GRETCHEN C F SHAPPERT,

individual,

Defendants-Appellees.

CARL WESTON; RODNEY CLASS;

ANGELA S. ANDREWS; RICHARD

ANDREWS; DWIGHT L. CLASS;

MARIA JANET MOFFIT;

SHERWOOD T. RODRIGUES;

WILLIAM MCDONALD; JOHN

DOE, Suing as: John and Jane Doe;

VINCENT RALPH CALIGIURI;

DELANT CORY PALMERTON,

Plaintiffs,

and

EDDIE L. ANDREWS,

Plaintiff-Appellant,

v.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA;

STATE JUSTICE INSTITUTE,

Official Capacity; STATE OF

OKLAHOMA; W.A. DREW

EDMONDSON, Individual; STATE

No. 07-5042

(D.C. No. 06-CV-460-K)

(N.D. Okla.)

Appellate Case: 07-5048 Document: 010181167 Date Filed: 12/06/2007 Page: 2 
-3-

OF OHIO; JIM PETRO, individual;

BETTY MONTGOMERY, individual;

BOB TAFT, individual; DEBORAH J.

GROOM, individual; WILLIAM F.

DOWNES, individual; MARSHA J.

PECHMAN, individual; ROBERT J.

BRYAN, individual; LAWRENCE K.

KARLTON, individual; FRANKLIN

D. BURGESS, individual; JOE

HEATON, individual; FIRST

NATIONAL BANK, Official capacity;

STATE OF WASHINGTON; ROB

MCKENNA, individual; STATE OF

CALIFORNIA; BILL LOCKYER,

individual; STATE OF TEXAS;

GREG ABBOTT, individual; STATE

OF NORTH CAROLINA; ROY

COOPER, individual; CNA SURETY,

Official capacity; WESTFIELD

INSURANCE, Official capacity;

GRETCHEN C F SHAPPERT,

individual,

Defendants-Appellees.

CARL WESTON; EDDIE L.

ANDREWS; ANGELA S.

ANDREWS; RICHARD ANDREWS;

DWIGHT L. CLASS; MARIA JANET

MOFFIT; SHERWOOD T.

RODRIGUES; WILLIAM

MCDONALD; JOHN DOE, Suing as:

John and Jane Doe; VINCENT

RALPH CALIGIURI; DELANT

CORY PALMERTON,

Plaintiffs,

and

No. 07-5048

(D.C. No. 06-CV-460-K)

(N.D. Okla.)

Appellate Case: 07-5048 Document: 010181167 Date Filed: 12/06/2007 Page: 3 
-4-

RODNEY CLASS,

Plaintiff-Appellant,

v.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA;

STATE JUSTICE INSTITUTE,

Official Capacity; STATE OF

OKLAHOMA; W.A. DREW

EDMONDSON, Individual; STATE

OF OHIO; JIM PETRO, individual;

BETTY MONTGOMERY, individual;

BOB TAFT, individual; DEBORAH J.

GROOM, individual; WILLIAM F.

DOWNES, individual; MARSHA J.

PECHMAN, individual; ROBERT J.

BRYAN, individual; LAWRENCE K.

KARLTON, individual; FRANKLIN

D. BURGESS, individual; JOE

HEATON, individual; FIRST

NATIONAL BANK, Official capacity;

STATE OF WASHINGTON; ROB

MCKENNA, individual; STATE OF

CALIFORNIA; BILL LOCKYER,

individual; STATE OF TEXAS;

GREG ABBOTT, individual; STATE

OF NORTH CAROLINA; ROY

COOPER, individual; CNA SURETY,

Official capacity; WESTFIELD

INSURANCE, Official capacity;

GRETCHEN C F SHAPPERT,

individual,

Defendants-Appellees.

Appellate Case: 07-5048 Document: 010181167 Date Filed: 12/06/2007 Page: 4 
* After examining the briefs and appellate record, this panel has determined

unanimously to grant the parties’ request for a decision on the briefs without oral

argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(f); 10th Cir. R. 34.1(G). The case is therefore

ordered submitted without oral argument. This order and judgment is not binding

precedent, except under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, and

collateral estoppel. It may be cited, however, for its persuasive value consistent

with Fed. R. App. P. 32.1 and 10th Cir. R. 32.1.

1 On December 1, 2007, the restyled Federal Rules of Civil Procedure went

into effect. What was previously Rule 58(a)(1) is now Rule 58(a).

-5-

ORDER AND JUDGMENT*

Before KELLY, PORFILIO, and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.

This matter began when an original group of nine plaintiffs filed a

complaint in the district court accusing various defendants of RICO violations,

fraud, and numerous other statutory and common law offenses. In an amended

opinion and order entered on the civil docket on October 24, 2006, the district

court dismissed the complaint for failure to state a claim for relief under Fed. R.

Civ. P. 12(b)(6). The district court, however, did not enter the judgment on a

separate document as required by Fed. R. Civ. P. 58(a).1

 In that circumstance,

judgment is deemed entered 150 days after the entry of the opinion and order in

the civil docket under Fed. R. Civ. P. 79(a), or on March 23, 2007. See Fed. R.

Civ. P. 58(c)(2)(B). Plaintiffs then had another thirty days within which to file

their notices of appeal, or until April 23, 2007. Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(1)(A). The

notices of appeal from appellants Weston, Andrews, and Class were all filed

Appellate Case: 07-5048 Document: 010181167 Date Filed: 12/06/2007 Page: 5 
2 Plaintiffs Palmerton and Caliguiri also filed timely notices of appeal, but

their appeals were eventually dismissed for failure to pay the filing fee.

-6-

before that date.2 We therefore DENY appellees’ motions to dismiss these

appeals as untimely.

We have consolidated appeals 07-5026, 07-5042, and 07-5048 and we

AFFIRM the judgment of the district court for substantially the same reasons

stated by that court in its Amended Opinion and Order dated October 24, 2006. 

We DENY all of appellants’ outstanding motions, including their motion to strike

Frank M. Strigari’s filing for just cause, the request for the clerk’s entry of

default and the clerk’s entry of judgment under Fed. R. Civ. P. 55(b)(1), the

notice of removal, the judicial notice of no due process with intent to rush

judgment on Richard Andrews’ default motion, plaintiffs’ judicial notice of no

due process with intent to rush judgment on Jeanette Triplett, and the motion to

disqualify the full panel of Tenth Circuit judges.

Appellees Westfield Insurance Company, CNA Surety, and First National

Bank (“Corporate Appellees”) have filed a separate Fed. R. Civ. P. 38 motion for

sanctions against appellant Andrews in appeal No. 07-5042. The Corporate

Appellees request an order enjoining Andrews from bringing any suit against any

of them without first receiving leave of court and further awarding them

reasonable attorney’s fees and costs associated with defending this appeal. This

Appellate Case: 07-5048 Document: 010181167 Date Filed: 12/06/2007 Page: 6 
-7-

court has given Andrews an opportunity to respond to the request for sanctions,

but he has not done so. 

As we noted in Andrews v. Heaton, 483 F.3d 1070, 1077 (10th Cir. 2007),

an appeal also involving Andrews and the issues he raises here, “[f]ederal courts

have the inherent power to regulate the activities of abusive litigants by imposing

carefully tailored restrictions in appropriate circumstances.” We agree with the

Corporate Appellees that Andrews has abused the appellate process by filing

numerous frivolous appeals. We therefore ENJOIN Andrews from filing any

further complaints in the United States District Court for the Northern District of

Oklahoma against any defendants containing the same or similar allegations set

forth in his complaint in the instant case without first obtaining permission from

the Chief Judge of that court. Andrews is further prohibited from making the same

or similar claims in any appeal or original proceeding in this court against any

defendants. In any proceeding invoking related claims or theories brought by

Andrews, the Clerk of this court shall direct Andrews to show cause in writing

why the matter should not be dismissed pursuant to these restrictions.

We GRANT the Corporate Appellees request for an award in the form of

reasonable attorney’s fees and costs associated with defending this appeal. We

remand the issue of reasonableness to the district court, however, to determine the

amount to be awarded in the first instance. See Hoyt v. Robson Cos., 11 F.3d 983,

985 (10th Cir. 1993).

Appellate Case: 07-5048 Document: 010181167 Date Filed: 12/06/2007 Page: 7 
-8-

The judgment of the district court is AFFIRMED, and this case is

REMANDED to the district court to determine the sanction amount in accordance

with this order and judgment.

Entered for the Court

Paul J. Kelly, Jr.

Circuit Judge

Appellate Case: 07-5048 Document: 010181167 Date Filed: 12/06/2007 Page: 8