United States Fifth Circuit - October 2010 Opinion Summaries

Ellis v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co.

Civil Procedure, Construction, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
In a tort action based on plaintiff's injury in Mississippi while working on a construction site for an Alabama employer who was a subcontractor for...

Packard v. OCA Inc.

Commercial Law, Contracts, Remedies
In defendants' appeal from summary judgment for plaintiff on defendant's counterclaims for unjust enrichment and money had and received, the order is...

US v. Fisher

Criminal Law & Procedure
In a drug prosecution, the district court's denial of defendant's motion to dismiss the indictment on double-jeopardy grounds is reversed where the...

US v. Wanambisi

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
A denial of defendant's motion to reduce his sentence for conspiring to import heroin is affirmed where: 1) nothing in Amendment 505 to the Sentencing...

US v. Jeong

Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, International Law
Defendant's conviction for bribing American public officials is affirmed where: 1) Article 4.3 of the Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign...

Gene & Gene, L.L.C. v. Biopay, L.L.C.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Communications Law, Consumer Protection Law, Evidence
In a lawsuit involving unsolicited faxes wherein defendant appealed from the district court's grant of plaintiff's motion to re-certify a class, the...

Cates v. Dillard Dept. Stores, Inc.

Commercial Law, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action against a department store after plaintiff slipped and fell, alleging that her fall was caused by a plastic "wet floor" sign that an...

US v. Holy Land Found. for Relief & Dev.

Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Remedies, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
In third-party movant's appeal from the district court's holding that movant's Fifth Amendment rights were violated by its public naming in an...

Pearson v. Holder

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
In a challenge to the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) and state sex-offender laws as unconstitutional on the grounds that they...

In re: SCOPAC

Bankruptcy Law, Commercial Law, Debt Collection
In creditors' appeal from the district court's dismissal of their appeal for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, where that appeal alleged that the...