United States Tenth Circuit - September 2010 Opinion Summaries

US v. Washington

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
In a cocaine base distribution prosecution, the denial of petitioner's 28 U.S.C. section 2255 motion to vacate, correct, or set aside his sentence is...

Izzo v. Wiley

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
In a habeas petition challenging the decision of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) denying petitioner's eligibility for the Elderly Offender Home Detention...

Oldenkamp v. United Am. Ins. Co.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Health Law, Insurance Law
In an action regarding defendant-insurer's denial of a claim for coverage of a medical procedure for their infant son, partial summary judgment for...

US v. Leyva-Matos

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Defendant's appeal from his sentence for possessing marijuana with intent to distribute and conspiring to possess marijuana with intent to distribute...

Oklahoma v. Tyson Foods, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Government Law, Indian Law
In an appeal by the Cherokee Nation from the district court's denial of its motion to intervene in a dispute between the State of Oklahoma and Tyson...

US v. Bowling

Banking Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Defendant's conviction and sentence for bank fraud are affirmed where: 1) the government did not need to prove that bank officers' conduct had not...

In re: Dittmar

Bankruptcy Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Securities Law
In bankruptcy trustees' appeal from the judgment of the bankruptcy appellate panel holding that debtors' stock appreciation rights (SARs) were not...

Murphy v. Deloitte & Touche Grp. Ins. Plan

Civil Procedure, ERISA, Evidence, Health Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action concerning defendant's denial of disability benefits under an ERISA plan, summary judgment for defendant is vacated where: 1) the court's...

McKissick v. Yuen

Attorney's Fees, Contracts, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Labor & Employment Law, Securities Law
In an action against plaintiff's former company and two of its former officers, accusing them of perpetrating a fraud that rendered her stock options...

Wilcox v. Homestake Mining Co.

Civil Procedure, Evidence, Injury & Tort Law
In an action brought under the Price-Anderson Act, 42 U.S.C. section 2210, claiming that plaintiffs suffered cancer due to exposure to radiation from...