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United States First Circuit - May 2005 Opinion Summaries

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Mercado v. The Ritz-Carlton
United States First Circuit
Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law 
Dismissal of plaintiffs' untimely filed employment discrimination claim is reversed where they are entitled to factual development of their claim for...
05/31/2005 04-1630
Estades-Negroni v. CPC Hosp.
United States First Circuit
Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law 
Dismissal of plaintiff's section 1983 lawsuit, alleging that defendant-hospital violated her Constitutional rights when it involuntarily hospitalized...
05/31/2005 04-1792
Zimmerman v. Cambridge Credit Counseling Corp.
United States First Circuit
Consumer Protection Law, Tax Law, Tax-exempt Organizations 
To be excluded from section 1679 of the Credit Repair Organizations Act, which creates a cause of action for consumers harmed by credit repair...
05/31/2005 04-2039
Johnson v. Gordon
United States First Circuit
Copyright, Intellectual Property 
In a copyright infringement action concerning music, summary judgment in favor of defendant is affirmed where the district court properly rejected...
05/31/2005 04-2475
Federacion De Maestros v. Junta De Relaciones
United States First Circuit
Civil Procedure 
The Rooker-Feldman doctrine applies in an interlocutory jurisdictional decision of the Puerto Rico appellate courts.
05/27/2005 03-1979
Smith v. Robertshaw Controls Co.
United States First Circuit
Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability 
In a product liability suit, summary judgment in favor of defendant is affirmed where it was prejudiced by unreasonably late notice of the claim.
05/27/2005 04-1262
US v. Fornia-Castillo
United States First Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing 
Defendant sentence for a drug conviction is vacated and remanded for resentencing pursuant to US v. Booker 125 S.Ct. 738 (2005).
05/27/2005 03-1069, 03-1070
In Re: Franco
United States First Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing 
Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Ethics & Disciplinary Code
05/27/2005 04-1306
Antilles Cement Corp. v. Vila
United States First Circuit
Constitutional Law, Construction, Government Law 
The district court's determination that two Puerto Rico construction statutes violate the dormant Foreign Commerce Clause is remanded to determine...
05/26/2005 03-2713
Estate of Abraham v. Comm'r of Internal Revenue
United States First Circuit
Tax Law 
Plaintiff's challenge to the an IRS determination of a tax deficiency is dismissed over its claim that the Tax Court erred in determining that 100% of...
05/26/2005 04-1886

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