# Grady Carroll Ouzts v. Maryland National Insurance Company

> Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · October 29, 1974 · 505 F.2d 547

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9461171

## Case

- **Full name:** Grady Carroll OUZTS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. MARYLAND NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY Et Al., Defendants-Appellees
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- **Decided:** October 29, 1974
- **Citations:** 505 F.2d 547
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Duniway
- **Judges:** Chambers, Merrill, Koelsch, Browning, Duniway, Ely, Hufstedler, Wright, Trask, Choy, Goodwin, Wallace, Sneed
- **Cited by:** 95 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that California’s version of the UCEA “abrogates the foreign bondsman’s common law right to pursue, apprehend and remove his [or her] principal from California without resort to process” and “interjects a mandatory series of court proceedings” which a foreign bondsman …
- recognizing that “the bail bondsman is in the business in order to make money and . . . [is] acting ‘to protect his own private financial interest and not to vindicate the interest of the state.’”
- holding that Nevada bondsmen were not state actors, where the bondsmen unilaterally seized principal in California and returned principal to Nevada

## Opinion text

DUNIWAY, Circuit Judge
(concurring) :
I concur in the dissenting opinion of Judge Hufstedler. I also concur in the dissenting opinion of Judge Merrill, insofar as it holds that the action of the defendants was also taken under color of Nevada law.

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