United States Tenth Circuit - April 2010 Opinion Summaries

US v. Lujan

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
In the U.S.'s appeal, in a capital murder matter, of the district court's order excluding evidence that defendant had been responsible for prior...

Midwest Crane & Rigging, Inc. v. Fed'l. Motor Carrier Safety Admin.

Administrative Law, Commercial Law, Transportation
In a petition for review of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's (FMCSA) determination that petitioner was a "commercial motor carrier"...

Koch Indus., Inc. v. US

Construction, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Government Contracts, Tax Law
In the government's appeal from the district court's order holding that plaintiff was permitted to use the percentage-of-completion method of...

US v. Silva-Arzeta

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Defendant's drug and firearm possession convictions are affirmed where: 1) defendant could converse in English sufficiently well to consent to the...

US v. Steele

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
In defendant's appeal from his 18-month sentence of imprisonment imposed for his second violation of the terms of his supervised release, the sentence...

Rodriguez v. Wet Ink, LLC

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In an employment discrimination suit against plaintiff's former employer, summary judgment for defendant on the ground that the action was time-barred...

US v. Batton

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Defendant's conviction under the Interstate Transportation of a Minor for Unlawful Sexual Relations Act is affirmed where: 1) the evidence of...

US v. Burkhart

Criminal Law & Procedure, Cyberspace Law
Defendant's conviction for possession of one or more matters containing a visual depiction of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct is...

Brammer-Hoelter v. Twin Peaks Charter Academy

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action alleging that violated plaintiffs' First Amendment rights while they were employed at defendant school by unlawfully prohibiting them...

Rio Grande Silvery Minnow v. Bureau of Reclamation

Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Water Law
In an action under the Endangered Species Act concerning whether the Bureau of Reclamation had discretion to reallocate water from agricultural and...