United States Tenth Circuit - April 2007 Opinion Summaries

Timmerman v. US Bank, N.A.

Banking Law, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In an action brought by an individual terminated from her position as a branch manager at U.S. Bank setting forth federal claims of sex and age...

US v. Cachucha

Contracts, Criminal Law & Procedure, Indian Law, Sentencing
A sentence for involuntary manslaughter in Indian Country is reversed and remanded for resentencing by a different judge where the government breached...

US v. Andrus

Criminal Law & Procedure, Cyberspace Law, Evidence
A conviction for possession of child pornography is affirmed over a claim of erroneous denial of a motion to suppress inculpatory evidence found on...

Zwygart v. Bd. of County Comm'rs of Jefferson County

Constitutional Law, Contracts, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit brought by a former employee alleging that a county's actions in terminating him following open heart surgery violated his rights under the...

Otis Elevator Co. v. Midland Red Oak Realty, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a suit brought by an elevator service company against a glass company and property owner seeking indemnity for the amount of settling an underlying...

Reeves v. Churchich

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 case arising from circumstances in which police officers were attempting to apprehend a domestic violence suspect and...

Andrews v. Heaton

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Family Law
In a case involving proceedings arising from lawsuits plaintiff brought seeking to compel federal judges to enjoin state court child custody...

US v. Rice

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Grant of a motion to suppress evidence, based on a claim that police lacked reasonable suspicion to conduct a pat-down search following a traffic...

Valdez-Sanchez v. Gonzales

Immigration Law
In the context of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigration Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA), where Petitioner was ordered excluded,...

Holmes v. State of Utah

Civil Rights, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action raising Title VII claims of sexual harassment and sexually hostile work environment against plaintiffs' employer, a state agency, summary...