United States DC Circuit - August 2002 Opinion Summaries

REPUBLICAN NAT'L COMM. v. TAYLOR

Contracts, False Advertising, Media Law
An advertising statement, offering a prize to one who disproves it, was not ambiguous, did not falsely allege that a Republican plan would balance the...

US AIR TOUR ASS'N v. FED. AVIATION ADMIN.

Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Transportation
Challenges by an air tour group, to an FAA rule limiting the number of air tours permitted to fly over a national park, are rejected. Environmental...

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...

WATERHOUSE v. DIST. OF COLUMBIA

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Neither an employee's prima facie case, nor her evidence of pretext (either separately or in combination) was sufficient to permit her race-based...

US v. SAMUEL

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
A sentence enhancement did not violate Apprendi, where the fact that defendant was on release at the time of a second crime was neither proved to a...

EXXONMOBIL GAS MARKETING CO. v. FED. ENERGY REGULATORY COMM'N

Administrative Law, Oil and Gas Law
The FERC did not act unreasonably in determining a line of demarcation in a pipeline system, where non-jurisdictional gathering ends and...

WORLD WIDE MINERALS, LTD. v. REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN

Contracts, International Law, International Trade
Though jurisdiction was proper under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, for some claims surrounding an agreement for exportation of uranium, those...