United States First Circuit - June 2003 Opinion Summaries

ROCAFORT v. IBM CORP.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Where a reasonable accommodation claim for plaintiff's panic and anxiety disorder lacked sufficient evidence under the ADA, and a hostile work...

CAMPITI v. MATESANZ

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
The state's claim that the court must decide whether Teague v. Lane, 489 U.S. 288, 307 (1989), bars the particular reading of Brady that petitioner...

MULLANE v. CHAMBERS

Admiralty, Attorney's Fees, Judgement Enforcement
The recording statute relating to federally documented vessels, 46 U.S.C. section 31321, renders an unrecorded bill of sale or conveyance invalid as...

GINES-PEREZ v. KELLY

Admiralty, Asset Forfeiture, Criminal Law & Procedure
The U.S. Customs Service's seizure of a boat belonging to the plaintiff on the ground that a culpable connection existed between the boat and certain...

NEW LIFE BROKERAGE SERVS., INC. v. CAL-SURANCE ASSOCS., INC.

Insurance Law
Under Maine law, the costs of remedial conduct required by a government agency to undo the effects of an insured's unlawful activity, even if the...

WORTLEY v. CAMPLIN

Securities Law
District court finding that plaintiff violated Section 10(b) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, 15 U.S.C. section 78j, and Rule 10b-5 are...

DUDLEY v. HANNAFORD BROS. CO.

Constitutional Law
A policy, which forbade the manager of the store in question from reconsidering a clerk's initial refusal to sell alcohol to a disabled person whose...

HEIDELBERG AMS., INC. v. TOKYO KIKAI SEISAKUSHO, LTD.

Civil Procedure
In an action alleging violations of the Anti-Dumping Act of 1916, 15 U.S.C. section 72, an order to quash a subpoena duces tecum under Fed. R. Civ. P....

REED v. MBNA MARKETING SYS., INC.

Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment in favor of employer is reversed in a sexual discrimination action where a jury could conclude that failure to report the alleged...

US v. PICANSO

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Conviction for distributing, conspiracy to distribute, and aiding and abetting distribution of cocaine, under 21 U.S.C. sections 841 and 846, are...