Amfac Distribution Corporation D/B/A Amfac Plumbing Supply Company v. Lowell L. Harrelson

In this appeal, the district court in Alabama granted the plaintiff-appellee’s motion for summary judgment in an action seeking to enforce a final judgment issued by a Texas state court. The defendant-appellant contends that the state court judgment, upon which the district court relied, was improperly authenticated under Rule 44(a)(1) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. 1 Accordingly, defendant argues that the district court improperly granted summary judgment. Believing that plaintiff has substantially complied with the Rule 44(a)(1), we affirm.

In June 1986, the District Court of…