United States DC Circuit - June 2002 Opinion Summaries

US v. HYLTON

Criminal Law & Procedure
Defendant was entitled to a new trial based on ineffective assistance of counsel, where defense counsel failed to object to a co-defendant's testimony...

AM. FOREST & PAPER ASS'N, INC. v. ENVTL. PROT. AGENCY

Administrative Law, Environmental Law
The Environmental Protection Agency's denial of a petition to delete the substance methanol from the list of "hazardous air pollutants," pursuant to...

BROCKTON HOSP. v. NAT'L LABOR RELATIONS BD.

Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
Hospital violated the National Labor Relations Act by: 1) preventing a nurses' union from distributing literature to its members at hospital...

COSTA DE ORO TELEVISION, INC. v. FCC

Administrative Law, Communications Law, Media Law
In determining local television market designations pursuant to cable television mandatory carriage rules, the FCC properly: 1) sustained earlier...

CLIFTON POWER CORP. v. FERC

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Public Utilities
Petition for review of a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission order imposing a civil penalty, for failure to install stream-flow monitoring equipment...

PRICE v. SOCIALIST PEOPLE'S LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, International Law
In a suit under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, plaintiffs failed to state a claim for hostage-taking adequate to abrogate sovereign immunity...

PIGFORD v. VENEMAN

Agriculture, Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Legal Malpractice
The district court exceeded its authority, in interpreting a consent decree to allow extension of critical deadlines "as justice requires," in...

US v. WESLEY

Criminal Law & Procedure
The search of a car without a warrant, was a permissible search incident to arrest where 1) police had probable cause to believe defendant was...

FOX TELEVISION STATIONS, INC. v. FCC

Administrative Law, Communications Law
The choice between two interpretations of Telecommunications Act section 202(h) was unnecessary to the outcome of the case at hand, but the question...

HERSHEY FOODS CORP. v. DEP'T OF AGRIC.

Administrative Law, Agriculture, Commercial Law
A food company failed to exhaust its administrative remedies under the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, in seeking to vacate part of a...