United States Tenth Circuit - June 2010 Opinion Summaries

NEW MEXICO YOUTH ORGANIZED, a project of the Center for Civic Policy, and Southwest Organizing Project, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Mary HERRERA, in her capacity as Secretary of State, Defendant-Appellant,

Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law, Tax-exempt Organizations
In an action by political committees challenging New Mexico's ability to regulate plaintiffs pursuant to the New Mexico Campaign Reporting Act...

In re: Graves

Bankruptcy Law, Tax Law
In an appeal from the bankruptcy appellate panel's holding that the Bankruptcy Code's turnover provision, 11 U.S.C. section 542, did not empower a...

US v. McGinty

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
In an action for misapplication of bank funds, the district court's award of forfeiture at sentencing is reversed where the government was entitled to...

Cahill v. Am. Fam. Mut. Ins. Co.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Insurance Law
In an action against an insurer asserting state-law causes of action arising out of defendant's alleged failure to comply with Colorado insurance law,...

US v. Martinez

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing, White Collar Crime
Defendant's sentence for conspiring to defraud the State of New Mexico during the construction of a county courthouse in Albuquerque is affirmed...

US v. Simpson

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Defendant's drug trafficking conviction is affirmed where the district court properly denied defendant's motion to suppress narcotics found in his...

Narotzky v. Natrona Cty. Mem. Hosp. Bd. of Trustees

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action by doctors against their former hospital employer, stating a procedural due process claim based on a theory of constructive discharge and...

Thomas v. Parker

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Evidence
In an action challenging various conditions of plaintiff's confinement at the James Crabtree Correctional Center (JCCC), a prison in the Oklahoma...

In re: Trout

Bankruptcy Law
In a bankruptcy trustee's appeal from a decision of the bankruptcy appellate panel affirming the bankruptcy court's determination that, having...

US v. Hasan

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Defendant's perjury convictions are affirmed in part where, although the prosecutor could have done more to clarify, the district court would not have...