United States DC Circuit - May 2001 Opinion Summaries

US v. LEGAL SERVICES FOR NEW YORK CITY

Civil Procedure, Ethics & Disciplinary Code
A federally-funded legal service corporation's ethical obligations do not prevent the Inspector General from compelling production of client names...

US v. BAE

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
The "reasonable estimate" of the loss caused by defendant's computer fraud for generating lottery tickets and refusing to pay for them is the fair...

SERV. EMPLOYEES INT'L UNION HEALTH AND WELFARE FUND v. PHILIP MORRIS, INC.

Injury & Tort Law
Alleged injuries of third-party health care providers are too remote to have been proximately caused by any conduct of defendant tobacco companies.

US v. YOUNG

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Where defendant was not sentenced by a provision affected by Guideline Amendment 484, there is no need to consider whether that amendment excludes the...

IN RE: SEALED CASE

Criminal Law & Procedure
Sending a summary of grand jury testimony to the qui tam court without the approval of the court supervising the grand jury violates Fed. R. Crim. P....

BLDG. INDUS. ASS'N v. NORTON

Administrative Law, Environmental Law
A final agency rule that is a logical outgrowth of the proposal does not require an additional round of notice and comment, even if the final rule...

US v. HITT

Criminal Law & Procedure
Where the government alleged the date that a conspiracy ended, but the indictment was not returned until more than five years after that date, the...

DEK ENERGY CO. v. FED. ENERGY REGULATORY COMM'N

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Constitutional Law, Oil and Gas Law
Where petitioner natural gas company cannot show that its alleged injury stemming from a competitor's contract to provide natural gas in the same...

STEVENSON v. DIST. OF COLUMBIA METRO. POLICE DEPT.

Civil Procedure
Where plaintiff received the jury instruction he requested, and passed up an opportunity to submit his own hypothetical question to the jury, he...

US v. ALAW

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
Contributing to a demonstration within a few feet of a reproductive clinic's entrances has the foreseeable and intended consequence of constituting a...