United States Fifth Circuit - November 2007 Opinion Summaries

Sobranes Recovery Pool I, LLC v. Todd & Hughes Constr. Corp.

Civil Procedure, Debt Collection, Government Law
In an assignee's action seeking to execute on a judgment entered against defendants in favor of the FDIC under the Federal Debt Collection Procedures...

Stotter v. Univ. of Texas at San Antonio

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Education Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a civil rights case involving the termination of an employment contract of a tenured professor and the alleged destruction of his personal...

US v. Carbajal-Diaz

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
A sentence for unlawful reentry into the U.S. after deportation is affirmed where the district court did not err in applying a "crime of violence"...

DTEX, LLC v. BBVA Bancomer, S.A.

Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Debt Collection, International Law, International Trade
In a dispute arising in Mexico involving competing claims to textile manufacturing equipment, dismissal of plaintiff's action on the basis of forum...

Citibank Texas, N.A. v. Progressive Cas. Ins. Co.

Banking Law, Contracts, Insurance Law
In a suit brought by Citibank against Progressive insurance as the issuer of a fidelity bond, claiming it should cover a loss Citibank sustained in a...

Ponce v. Socorro Indep. Sch. Dist.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law
Student speech that threatens a Columbine-style attack on a school is not protected by the First Amendment, because such speech poses a direct threat...

Rose v. Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Oil and Gas Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action brought by the joint owner of an undivided interest in certain property, across which defendant-gas pipeline owner holds a pipeline...

US v. Ronquillo

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Consecutive sentences imposed on defendant for two drug-related offenses are affirmed over claims that: 1) the district court violated his Fifth...

O'Hara v. Gen. Motors Corp.

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability, Transportation
In an action brought by parents against GM for injuries sustained by their daughter when she was partially ejected from a 2004 Chevrolet Tahoe during...

Bailey v. US

Asset Forfeiture, Civil Procedure, Criminal Law & Procedure
Dismissal of defendant's motion seeking the return of property seized from him at his arrest and a grant of the government's motion to dismiss are...