United States DC Circuit - July 2008 Opinion Summaries

Vann v. Kempthorne

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law, Indian Law
In a suit by descendants of Cherokee-owned slaves alleging that the Secretary of the Interior violated numerous laws and constitutional provisions by...

Fed. Trade Comm'n v. Whole Foods Mkt., Inc.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Commercial Law, Corporation & Enterprise Law, M&A
Denial of the FTC's request for a preliminary injunction against the merger of the Whole Foods and Wild Oats supermarket chains is reversed and...

La Reunion Aerienne v. Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

Civil Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, International Law, Remedies
In an interlocutory appeal in a suit arising from the bombing of a French airliner over Africa, denial in part of defendants' motion to dismiss is...

Stolt-Nielsen Transp. Group Ltd. v. US

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Government Law, Transportation
In a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) action in which plaintiff sought the release of amnesty agreements entered into by the Antitrust Division of...

Dominion Transmission, Inc. v. Fed. Energy Regulatory Comm'n

Administrative Law, Government Law, Oil and Gas Law, Public Utilities
A petition for review of an FERC order requiring petitioner to supplement reports prepared as part of a settlement agreement is granted and the order...

Klamath Water Users Ass'n v. Fed. Energy Regulatory Comm'n

Administrative Law, Agriculture, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Government Law, Public Utilities, Water Law
Petitioners lack standing to challenge a FERC decision to re-license a dam operator without binding it to the terms of its existing contract setting...

Meijer, Inc. v. Biovail Corp.

Administrative Law, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Procedure, Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
In consolidated antitrust actions alleging that a drug manufacturer misused its patent to keep a generic equivalent to one of its drugs off the...

Chein v. Drug Enforcement Admin.

Administrative Law, Drugs & Biotech, Health Law
DEA's revocation of petitioner-physician's practitioner's registration and denial of his application for a registration to export Schedule III and...

Pub. Citizen, Inc. v. Rubber Mfrs. Ass'n

Administrative Law, Government Law, Transportation
In a suit challenging a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) regulation regarding the submission by manufacturers of certain...

US v. George

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Health Law
Conviction for bank robbery is affirmed where a denial of defendant's request to cross-examine a witness about her bipolar disorder did not violate...