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United States Fifth Circuit - June 2001 Opinion Summaries

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US v. JIMENEZ

United States Fifth Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure
A one-room office in a private residential home may provide federal jurisdiction for purposes of federal arson statutes, even if defendants were...
06/29/2001 00-50323

HUGHES TRAINING INC. v. COOK

United States Fifth Circuit
Injury & Tort Law
Although insensitive to the employee's condition, an employer's order to resume original duties was neither extreme nor outrageous where employee's...
06/29/2001 00-11317

RUDD v. JOHNSON

United States Fifth Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Due process does not require that a jury deciding a death penalty sentence hear about how long a prisoner would be incarcerated before parole if there...
06/28/2001 00-11173

US v. CLINTON

United States Fifth Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Although the judge did not direct the jury to find beyond a reasonable doubt that the conspiracy involved 50 grams or more of cocaine base, error was...
06/27/2001 99-30253

US v. DELGADO

United States Fifth Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure
F. R. Crim. Proc. 35(c), allowing a court to correct a sentence imposed as a result of error, allows correction sua sponte in order to honor...
06/26/2001 99-50635

COX v. CITY OF DALLAS TEXAS

United States Fifth Circuit
Environmental Law
Even though the defendant stopped adding pollutants to an unlawful dump in 1972 and Congress did not enact the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act,...
06/26/2001 99-11029

RICHARDSON v. JOHNSON

United States Fifth Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
A claim requesting a competency hearing prior to execution is subject to the AEDPA's limits upon successive writs.
06/26/2001 01-50568

MOORE v. AVOYELLES CORR. CTR.

United States Fifth Circuit
Constitutional Law
Louisiana did not violate the Constitution's proscription of ex post facto laws by subjecting petitioner to a sex offender neighborhood notification...
06/25/2001 99-30101

INS. CO. OF N. AM. v. ABERDEEN INS. SERVS., INC.

United States Fifth Circuit
Insurance Law
Where the insured was responsible for damages resulting in delay of project completion, and coverage extended to "all other direct or indirect or...
06/25/2001 99-20721

VERDINE v. ENSCO OFFSHORE CO.

United States Fifth Circuit
Civil Procedure, Oil and Gas Law
The Louisiana Oilfield Anti-Indemnity Act invalidates indemnity provisions forced on Louisiana oilfield contractors because public policy protects...
06/22/2001 00-31107

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