GRANITE STATE INSURANCE CO.

v.

TANDY CORP. ET AL.

Citator

Cited By

• The Travelers Ins. Co. v. La. Farm Bureau Fed'n, Inc., 996 F.2d 774 (5th Cir. 1993)
  …s case. It is now well-settled in the Fifth Circuit that a district court has discretion over whether to decide or dismiss a declaratory judgment action.12 Granite State Ins. Co. v. Tandy Corp., 986 F. 2d 94 (6th Cir.1992), cert. dismissed, — U.S.-, 113 S.Ct. 1836, 123 L.Ed.2d 463 (1993); Torch, Inc. v. LeBlanc, 947 F. 2d 193 (5th Cir.1991). However, though the district court’s discretion is broad, it is not unfettered. Courts may not dismiss requests “for declaratory judgment relief ‘on the basis of whim or…

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• McFarland v. Scott, 512 U.S. 1256 (U.S. 1994)
  …i). Other indigent defendants have been represented by attorneys who had been admitted to the bar only six months before and never had conducted a criminal trial. E. g., Paradis v. Arave, 954 F. 2d 1483, 1490-1491 (CA9 1992), vacated and remanded, 507 U. S. 1026 (1993), relief denied, 20 F. 3d 950, 959 (1994). One Louisiana defendant was convicted of capital murder following a 1-day trial and 20-minute penalty phase proceeding, in which his counsel stipulated to the defendant’s age at the time of the crim…