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United States Fifth Circuit - June 2006 Opinion Summaries

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Martinez-Lopez v. Gonzales
United States Fifth Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Immigration Law, International Law 
Petition for review of an order of removal is denied over claims that: 1) because a state conviction would be punishable as a misdemeanor under...
06/30/2006 05-60503
Moore v. Quarterman
United States Fifth Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Health Law 
In a capital murder and death sentence case, grant of habeas relief pursuant to defendant's Atkins claim and an ultimate finding that defendant was...
06/30/2006 05-70038
Resendiz v. Quarterman
United States Fifth Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Health Law 
In a capital murder and death sentence case, defendant's application for a certificate of appealability and his motion for a stay of execution are...
06/28/2006 06-70028
US v. Candia
United States Fifth Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing 
Under Booker, the consecutive nature of a properly calculated guidelines sentence is reviewed for unreasonableness. Further, when a district court...
06/28/2006 05-30213
Resendiz v. Livingston
United States Fifth Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure 
In a capital murder and death sentence case, an order of the district court denying defendant's motion for an injunction, restraining order, or stay...
06/28/2006 06-70029
US v. Thompson
United States Fifth Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Sentencing 
Defendants' convictions and sentences for offenses relating to bank robbery are affirmed as to one defendant, and reversed in part as to one...
06/28/2006 05-20123
US v. Medina-Argueta
United States Fifth Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing 
In situations where a district court miscalculates a guideline sentencing range yet imposes a sentence that falls within a properly calculated...
06/28/2006 05-50474
Shelby S v. Conroe Indep. Sch. Dist.
United States Fifth Circuit
Administrative Law, Education Law, Government Law, Health Law 
In the context of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), where a school district articulates reasonable grounds for its necessity to...
06/27/2006 04-20666
Garcia v. Quarterman
United States Fifth Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus 
A Sandstrom-type error, relating to erroneous jury instruction, is subject to harmless error analysis. Grant of habeas relief for petitioner in an...
06/23/2006 05-50382
Waterfowl Ltd. Liab. Co. v. US
United States Fifth Circuit
Contracts, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate 
A judgment against defendant-government finding that its mineral royalty, attached to mineral servitudes on certain land, had prescribed in accordance...
06/21/2006 05-30219

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