United States v. Gilberto Melendez

JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:

The defendant in the civil case, Gilberto Melendez, attacks a directed verdict awarding damages to the government because of the Melendez’s failure to comply with the service obligation incident to a government-sponsored scholarship program. Concluding that a reasonable jury could not have decided in favor of Melendez, we affirm.

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Between 1980 and 1983, while Melendez was in medical school, he applied for and received three one-year scholarship awards totaling $27,800 from the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) scholarship program. See 42 U.S.C. §§ 254Z-254q.…