# Delta Theatres, Inc. v. Paramount Pictures, Inc.

> Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · August 28, 1968 · 398 F.2d 323

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9453828

## Case

- **Full name:** DELTA THEATRES, INC., Appellant, v. PARAMOUNT PICTURES, INC., Et Al., Appellees
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- **Decided:** August 28, 1968
- **Citations:** 398 F.2d 323
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** On rehearing
- **Judges:** Coleman, Clayton, Johnson
- **Cited by:** 27 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- No negative treatment found by the automated citator. That is not the same as a confirmation that the case is good law; read the citing cases.
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9453828

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- affirming dismissal of a particularly egregious fourteen-year old case that was dormant for seven years
- affirming the district’s court decision to order dismissal with prejudice where a fourteen year old case was dormant for about seven years
- affirming dismissal of a fourteen-year-old case that was unpro-secuted for seven years

## Opinion text

ON PETITION FOR REHEARING EN BANC
PER CURIAM * :
The Petition for Rehearing is denied and no member of this panel nor Judge in regular active service on the Court having requested that the Court be polled on rehearing en banc (Rule 35 Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure; Local Fifth Circuit Rule 12), the Petition for Rehearing En Banc is denied.
Judge CLAYTON, the author of the opinion on which rehearing was sought, did not participate in this decision because of sudden and unexpected illness.

---

Source: Frix Law Library, https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9453828. Public record. Not legal advice.