United States Eighth Circuit - May 2008 Opinion Summaries

In re: NVE Corp. Sec. Litig

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Securities Law
In a putative securities class action alleging that a corporation and certain of its directors and officers had made false and misleading statements...

Miller v. Whitehead

Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
In consolidated habeas cases wherein prisoners alleged that the Bureau of Prisons unlawfully declared them ineligible for placement at a Residential...

Walker v. Bowersox

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Remedies
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action brought by a prisoner against prison official-defendants alleging excessive force claims, summary judgment for...

US v. Kowal

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Conviction and sentence for aggravated identity theft is affirmed over defendant's claims that: 1) the statute of conviction does not cover theft of a...

US v. Chavarria-Brito

Criminal Law & Procedure, Immigration Law, Sentencing
A sentence for illegal reentry following deportation, enhanced based on his prior conviction of an "aggravated felony", is affirmed where defendant's...

In re: Patch

Bankruptcy Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Injury & Tort Law, Remedies
In bankruptcy proceedings, a decision affirming sua sponte entry of summary judgment in favor of father, the trustee for the heirs and next of kin of...

Beck v. Mukasey

Evidence, Immigration Law
Petition for review of orders denying Hungarian citizens' applications for asylum and withholding of removal is denied where: 1) petitioners did not...

Advance Am. Servicing of Arkansas, Inc. v. McGinnis

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Injury & Tort Law, Remedies
In an action wherein plaintiff sought to compel arbitration of a dispute over a series of loan agreements, grant of motion to dismiss for lack of...

Horn v. Best Buy Stores, L.P.

Civil Rights, Evidence, Labor & Employment Law
In an action against former employer alleging retaliatory discharge, summary judgment for defendant is affirmed where plaintiff did not make out a...

Puckett v. Hot Springs Sch. Dist. No. 23-2

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Law, Transportation
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action wherein plaintiffs claimed that a school district's termination of transportation services to parochial schools...