United States Tenth Circuit - June 2006 Opinion Summaries

Gomes v. Wood

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Family Law, Government Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
Summary judgment for defendants in a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action arising out of a child protection caseworker's removal of a child from...

Walker v. City of Orem

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
Denial of qualified immunity to specific officer-defendants in a case arising out of a police shooting and subsequent detention of witnesses to the...

Tsosie v. US

Civil Procedure, Government Law, Health Law, Indian Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Professional Malpractice
Dismissal of a suit against the U.S. under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) arising from the death of plaintiff's wife, a member of the Navajo...

Endlich v. Yellow Corp.

Civil Rights, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Transportation, Workers' Compensation
Summary judgment for defendant on a former employee's suit against it for alleged violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is affirmed...

Hornsby v. Jones

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Civil Rights
In a pro se prisoner's civil rights case, judgment in favor of defendants and an order denying plaintiff's motion to vacate the judgment are affirmed...

US v. Banks

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Military Law
A conviction for carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime is affirmed over claims of insufficiency of the evidence, and a...

Vargas v. Dep't of Homeland Sec.

Criminal Law & Procedure, Immigration Law
An order of removal is affirmed where a state charge against petitioner was for contributing to the delinquency of a minor by inducing the minor to...

Graves v. Thomas

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 arising out of plaintiffs' son's death while he was pursued in a high-speed chase by police, summary judgment for all...

US v. Esser

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
A conviction for possession of a firearm by a felon is affirmed over claims of erroneous denial of a suppression motion involving: 1) a claim that the...

US v. Najar

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Sentencing
A conviction and sentence for being a felon in possession of a firearm is affirmed over a Booker claim, and a claim of erroneous denial of a...