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United States Fifth Circuit - June 2001 Opinion Summaries

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HUGHES TRAINING INC. v. COOK
United States Fifth Circuit
Injury & Tort Law 
Although insensitive to the employee's condition, an employer's order to resume original duties was neither extreme nor outrageous where employee's...
06/29/2001 00-11317
US v. JIMENEZ
United States Fifth Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure 
A one-room office in a private residential home may provide federal jurisdiction for purposes of federal arson statutes, even if defendants were...
06/29/2001 00-50323
RUDD v. JOHNSON
United States Fifth Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus 
Due process does not require that a jury deciding a death penalty sentence hear about how long a prisoner would be incarcerated before parole if there...
06/28/2001 00-11173
US v. CLINTON
United States Fifth Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing 
Although the judge did not direct the jury to find beyond a reasonable doubt that the conspiracy involved 50 grams or more of cocaine base, error was...
06/27/2001 99-30253
RICHARDSON v. JOHNSON
United States Fifth Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus 
A claim requesting a competency hearing prior to execution is subject to the AEDPA's limits upon successive writs.
06/26/2001 01-50568
COX v. CITY OF DALLAS TEXAS
United States Fifth Circuit
Environmental Law 
Even though the defendant stopped adding pollutants to an unlawful dump in 1972 and Congress did not enact the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act,...
06/26/2001 99-11029
US v. DELGADO
United States Fifth Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure 
F. R. Crim. Proc. 35(c), allowing a court to correct a sentence imposed as a result of error, allows correction sua sponte in order to honor...
06/26/2001 99-50635
MOORE v. AVOYELLES CORR. CTR.
United States Fifth Circuit
Constitutional Law 
Louisiana did not violate the Constitution's proscription of ex post facto laws by subjecting petitioner to a sex offender neighborhood notification...
06/25/2001 99-30101
INS. CO. OF N. AM. v. ABERDEEN INS. SERVS., INC.
United States Fifth Circuit
Insurance Law 
Where the insured was responsible for damages resulting in delay of project completion, and coverage extended to "all other direct or indirect or...
06/25/2001 99-20721
MARTINEZ v. JOHNSON
United States Fifth Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus 
Ineffective assistance of counsel during state habeas proceedings does not excuse failure to raise issue of ineffectiveness of trial counsel because...
06/22/2001 00-40813

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