United States DC Circuit - March 2007 Opinion Summaries

Watts v. SEC

Civil Procedure, Evidence, Securities Law
In underlying litigation between shareholders and petitioner, a former executive who allegedly committed secruities fraud, direct appeal from...

Fin. Planning Ass'n v. SEC

Securities Law
Promulgation of a final rule exempting broker-dealers from the requirements of the Investment Advisers Act when they receive "special compensation"...

US v. Gwyn

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Conviction for illegal firearm possession by a convicted felon is affirmed over claims that counsel provided ineffective assistance in failing to: 1)...

Ellipso, Inc. v. Mann

Banking Law, Communications Law, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Remedies
In case alleging fraudulent inducement to enter a loan agreement, preliminary injunction issued to preserve assets for a potential judgment against...

Jochims v. NLRB

Administrative Law, Labor & Employment Law
In case involving unfair labor practice charge in the form of unlawful discharge for engaging in protected activities, holding that petitioner was a...

Qwest Corp. v. FCC

Administrative Law, Communications Law
Petition for review challenging respondent's order relieving petitioner of the duty to provide its competitors access to certain unbundled network...

US v. Andrews

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
The district court did not commit plain error when it held that defendant's prior conviction for first-degree sexual abuse of a ward was a crime of...

US v. Curtis

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Sentencing
In case involving pimp whose prostitutes included girls under the age of eighteen, conviction and sentence for sex trafficking of children and...

Flynn v. Dick Corp.

ERISA, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment for defendant company on plaintiffs' claim for employee benefit contributions to union pension fund is reversed as the requested...

Wilburn v. Robinson

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
In suit brought by applicant for position of D.C. Director of the Office of Human Rights claiming she was not selected in retaliation for criticizing...