Distribution Overpayment & help finding court cases.

[FundeK]

I have done numerous searches for "overpayment" in different forums and keep coming across three court cases:

Primary CareNet of Texas v. Scott, SA-99-CA-0427 OG (W.D. Tex. 2001)

and

AmSouth Bank v. Carr, 2001 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 6436 (S.D. Ala. 2001)

and

Great West-Life.

I am not an attorney, nor do I play one on T.V. so I will not pretend to know what I am doing and apoligize now for my silly questions. Can someone help me decipher all of the abbreviations? (I did figure out Ala is Alabama and W.D. is Western District) What are the other numbers and letters? Also, what courts are these cases presented in?

Is there anywhere on the internet the I can go to look at these cases? I have done numerous Google searches and have had no luck (as all of you attorneys probably already knew!) Does anyone have a link to a summary of these cases?

Thanks!

[KJohnson]

The first case is out of the Western District of Texas. The numbers are the docket number assigned by the Court. It's not going to be of much help unless you have access to one of the two major on-line legal data bases--westlaw or lexis. I did a quck google search and found a westlaw number:

.., 2001 WL 681690

The second case is out of the southern district of Alabama. The cite is an identifier in the lexis database.

Great West is a Supreme Court case and it can be found here:

http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/99-1786.ZO.html