United States Tenth Circuit - January 2010 Opinion Summaries

Weise v. Casper

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In a Bivens action based on the exclusion of plaintiffs, by volunteers acting under government supervision, from a speech by then-President Bush,...

US v. Osborne

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Defendant's bank robbery sentence is affirmed where the facts of defendant's high-speed car chase following the robbery, which formed the basis for...

In re: Baldwin

Bankruptcy Law, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law
In bankruptcy adversary proceedings by the trustee seeking to dissolve a family limited partnership in which debtor owned a 99% limited partnership...

US v. Brown

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Defendant's attempted armed robbery conviction is affirmed where the government's summary of an expert's proposed testimony stated that she would...

US v. James

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Defendant's wire fraud and money laundering sentence is affirmed in part where the district court did not clearly err in finding that defendant was an...

US v. Taylor

Criminal Law & Procedure
Defendant's carjacking conviction is affirmed where 1) the police's choice to secure and tow defendant's vehicle was reasonable; 2) there was nothing...

US v. Wayne

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
In a wire fraud prosecution, the supervised release conditions imposed by the district court upon defendant are affirmed where 1) the district court...

Carpio v. Holder

Administrative Law, Immigration Law
In a petition for review of the BIA's denial of petitioner's application for a conditional adjustment of status under 8 U.S.C. section 1255(d), the...

US v. Farr

Criminal Law & Procedure, Tax Law
In a tax evasion prosecution, a denial of defendant's motion to dismiss the indictment is affirmed where: 1) a prior reversal for constructive...

Herriman v. Bell

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Elections, Government Law
In an Equal Protection challenge to a Utah statute that allowed cities, through an election open only to residents in the proposed new district, to...