United States Tenth Circuit - April 2003 Opinion Summaries

VERDECIA v. OFFICER ADAMS

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
Bureau of Prisons investigative agents were entitled to qualified immunity in an action alleging that they incarcerated plaintiff under conditions...

US v. GONZALES

Civil Procedure, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sanctions
A former Assistant U.S. Attorney had no standing to seek review of a district court post-judgment order allegedly censuring him for misconduct in...

ROSKA v. PETERSON

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Family Law
Plaintiffs adequately alleged that social workers violated their Fourteenth Amendment rights when, in the absence of extraordinary circumstances, they...

HAIN v. MULLIN

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Appeals challenging denial of petitioner's request for funding under 21 U.S.C. section 848 (q)(8), and denial of a request for a stay of execution...

MICKEVICIUTE v. IMMIGRATION & NATURALIZATION SERV.

Immigration Law
Denial of petitioner's motion to reopen deportation proceedings is remanded where the Board of Immigration Appeals did not sufficiently articulate its...

BELAY-GEBRU v. IMMIGRATION & NATURALIZATION SERV.

Civil Procedure, Immigration Law
No petition for review or reconsideration of a final order of deportation was filed within thirty days after issuance of the final order, and the...

OLCOTT v. DELAWARE FLOOD CO.

Civil Procedure, Sanctions
The district court did not dismiss all of plaintiff's substantive claims, but retained jurisdiction to enforce a sanction, and appropriately entered a...

PATTON v. DENVER POST CORP.

ERISA, Family Law, Labor & Employment Law
A state domestic relations order granting plaintiff survivor benefits in her former husband's pension plan was a "qualified domestic relations order"...

DODGE v. COTTER CORP.

Environmental Law, Evidence, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
The district court improperly admitted expert scientific testimony by failing to perform its gatekeeper obligation, in an action alleging injuries...

QUIGLEY v. ROSENTHAL

Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
The fair report privilege was inapplicable in a defamation claim under Colorado law. Application of the federal wiretap act to the Anti-Defamation...