United States DC Circuit - November 2006 Opinion Summaries

Weiss v. Securities & Exch. Comm'n

Administrative Law, Education Law, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Sanctions, Securities Law
Imposition of sanctions on petitioner, a bond counsel for a school district, for his violation of sections 17(a)(2)and (a)(3) of the Securities Act...

Veitch v. England

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law, Military Law
In case where plaintiff, a former Navy Chaplain with conservative evangelical Protestant religious beliefs, alleged that he had been constructively...

Simpson v. Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

Admiralty, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Government Law, International Law
In case involving Libyan authorities capturing passengers and crew of a yacht that docked in Benghazi during a storm, with allegations of torture,...

CEI WA Bureau Inc. v. U.S. Dep't of Justice

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights
Summary judgment in favor of appellee, after appellee denied appellant's request for certain records relating to the incarceration of illegal aliens,...

Virginia State Corp. Comm'n v. Federal Energy Regulatory Comm'n

Administrative Law, Public Utilities
Petitions for review of defendant's orders declining to consider whether intervenor power company can treat as "regulatory assets" certain wholesale...

Natural Fuel Gas Supply Corp. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Comm'n

Administrative Law, Government Law, Oil and Gas Law
Defendant's issuance of Standards of Conduct to regulate natural gas pipelines' interactions with their marketing affiliates, and later revision to...

Ranbaxy Labs. Ltd. v. Leavitt

Administrative Law, Drugs & Biotech, Health Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
Summary judgment for plaintiffs, on request that the FDA relist patents held by Merck that Merck requested removed from the "Orange Book" after...

National Fam. Planning & Reprod. Health Ass'n, Inc. v. Gonzales

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Benefits, Government Law
Appeal from summary judgment for the government and denial of injunction against Weldon Amendment, which prohibits recipients of federal grant funds...

US v. Adewani

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Sentencing
Conviction of unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon is affirmed over claims that: 1) the district court erred in...

Sample v. Bureau of Prisons

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Summary judgment for defendant, on plaintiff's Freedom of Information Act claim seeking a large number of BOP documents in electronic format, which...