United States Fifth Circuit - May 2001 Opinion Summaries

US v. VASQUEZ-ZAMORA

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Where the district court could have imposed consecutive prison terms for each count of the indictment, its finding that concurrent terms of...

SPECTATORS' COMMUNICATION NETWORK INC. v. COLONIAL COUNTRY CLUB

Antitrust & Trade Regulation
Even though one alleged conspirator lacks a direct interest in precluding competition, if it is enticed or coerced into knowingly curtailing...

ENTERGY GULF STATES, INC. v. NAT'L LABOR RELATIONS BD.

Labor & Employment Law
The NLRB cannot depart without reasonable explanation from a position it espoused for nearly twenty years, and factually indistinguishable caselaw...

S. CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE, LOUISIANA CHAPTER v. SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA

Civil Rights
A refusal to promote private speech is not on a par with a regulation that prohibits or punishes speech, or which excludes a speaker from a public or...

US v. BURBRIDGE

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Ordinary citizens who report a crime and remain available in person throughout the encounter ensure the credibility of the information they provide...

RILEY v. ST. LUKE'S EPISCOPAL HOSP.

Constitutional Law, Government Contracts
The qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act allowing private citizens to pursue fraudulent claims actions in the name of the federal government do...

SHABOON v. DUNCAN

Civil Rights
Hospital official is entitled to qualified immunity for seeking medical resident's personal medical records against the resident's invasion of privacy...

CLYDE BERGEMANN, INC. v. THE BABCOCK & WILCOX CO.

Bankruptcy Law
A bankruptcy court's order authorizing only a pre-confirmation financing arrangement involving all the debtors and from which each of the debtors...

NATIONWIDE MUT. INS. CO. v. DUNNING

Insurance Law
Even though parent withheld title, made repairs and set certain rules for use of the car, where minor was principal driver and often broke the...

HOME PORT RENTALS, INC. v. THE INT'L YACHTING GROUP, INC., ETC.

Judgement Enforcement
When a money judgment from a district court located in one state is registered in a district court located in another state, the applicable limitation...