United States Fourth Circuit

Post-mandate judgment entered by the district court in 2002 modified the circuit court's 1999 judgment in contravention of the mandate rule. In specifying how the Unfair Trade Practices Act award should be allocated between defendants, the post-mandate judgment foreclosed all possible allocation scenarios save one, thereby altering the prior judgment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/30/2004
• Published 01/30/2004

Judges

• Before MOTZ, TRAXLER, and KING, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:Sean Eric Andrussier, Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice, P.L.L.C., Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellants.  Kenneth Ray Wooten, Ward & Smith, P.A., New Bern, North Carolina, for Appellees. ON BRIEF:  Pressly M. Millen, Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice, P.L.L.C., Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellants.  E.D. Gaskins, Jr., Everett, Gaskins, Hancock & Stevens, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellees.