United States Tenth Circuit - September 2008 Opinion Summaries

US v. Schene

Criminal Law & Procedure, Cyberspace Law, Evidence
A conviction for knowingly possessing material that contained an image of child pornography that was produced using materials that had been mailed,...

US v. Pinson

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Sentencing
In a criminal case involving a mentally-ill inmate with a propensity for making grandiose threats, his conviction and 240-month sentence for...

Hukill v. Oklahoma Native Am. Domestic Violence Coalition

Civil Procedure, Indian Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action brought by a former employee terminated by defendants, denial of defendants' motion to set aside a default judgment in favor of plaintiff...

Kelley v. City of Albuquerque

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action claiming that defendants retaliated against plaintiff-former Albuquerque assistant city attorney in violation of Title VII and state law,...

Doctor John's v. Wahlen

Civil Rights, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In an action claiming that defendant-city's ordinance regulating sexually oriented businesses violates the First Amendment, summary judgment on remand...

Hesse v. Town of Jackson

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an employment termination case brought by a former town attorney against the town's mayor, administrator, clerk, and one of its council members,...

US v. Sells

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
A sentence imposed on remand for conspiring to possess methamphetamine with intent to distribute, knowingly maintaining a place for the manufacture,...

Weber v. GE Group Life Assurance Co.

Contracts, ERISA, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies
In an action against the administrator and fiduciary of certain employee group insurance plans seeking payment of death benefits, summary judgment...

Mullin v. Travelers Indem. Co. of Connecticut

Bankruptcy Law, Contracts, Insurance Law, Judgement Enforcement, Landlord Tenant Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action against defendant-insurer seeking a declaratory judgment that plaintiffs-property owners are entitled to recover from defendant the full...

Dummar v. Lummis

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Probate, Trusts & Estates
In a case involving the estate of the late billionaire Howard Hughes alleging that defendants deprived plaintiff of his inheritance by conspiring to...