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United States First Circuit - June 2002 Opinion Summaries

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CARROLL v. XEROX CORP.

United States First Circuit
Civil Rights, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
Claim alleging disability discrimination in employment, in violation of the ADA and Massachusetts law, was not actionable, where the record indicated...
06/28/2002 01-2013

HOWARD v. ANTILLA

United States First Circuit
Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law, Media Law
In a publicly-traded company chairman's suit against a newspaper reporter, jury verdict in false light invasion of privacy claim vacated where, even...
06/28/2002 01-1643

TAMKO ROOFING PROD., INC. v. IDEAL ROOFING CO., LTD.

United States First Circuit
Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Trademark
The prevailing party in a trademark infringement action was not entitled to attorneys' fees and expenses in connection with an appeal brought by the...
06/28/2002 01-1382, 01-2273

STEPHENS v. HALL

United States First Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Rejection of ineffective assistance of counsel claim did not represent an unreasonable application of federal law, where defense counsel was...
06/28/2002 01-1304, 01-1369

US v. MYERS

United States First Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure
District court's refusal to grant defense counsel's motion to withdraw was correct, where acrimony between counsel and defendant did not jeopardize...
06/25/2002 01-2059

OUBER v. GUARINO

United States First Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Defense counsel's abrupt and unjustified abandonment of the promise that defendant would testify, after staking the defense on the strength of that...
06/17/2002 01-2390

LIPMAN v. DYE

United States First Circuit
Civil Procedure, Contracts
After an underlying action for conversion was dismissed on the eve of trial, with no request by the parties that the court retain jurisdiction, a...
06/17/2002 01-2384

IN RE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL COMPANY, INC.

United States First Circuit
Constitutional Law
District of Rhode Island's practice of refusing to place legal memoranda in the case file, for public perusal, violates the First Amendment, but in a...
06/12/2002 02-1329, 02-1475

US v. SMITH

United States First Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure
In appeal from conviction for possession of a firearm and various rounds of ammunition, 1) admission of evidence of drug dealing was proper, 2) a...
06/11/2002 99-1678

IN RE: MIDDLESEX POWER EQUIPMENT & MARINE, INC.

United States First Circuit
Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Property Law & Real Estate, Tax Law
The district court was not required to resolve a dispute over payment of taxes owed to a town on real estate sold by a trustee in bankruptcy, and...
06/11/2002 01-2314

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