United States DC Circuit - July 2009 Opinion Summaries

In re Sealed Case

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Defendant's drug distribution sentence is reversed where 18 U.S.C. section 3582(a) expressly prohibits sentencing courts from treating rehabilitation...

Oveissi v. Islamic Repub. of Iran

Civil Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, International Law
In an action against the Islamic Republic of Iran for causing Hezbollah's assassination of plaintiff's grandfather (chief of the Iranian armed...

Cobell v. Salazar

Civil Procedure, Government Law, Indian Law, Remedies
In an action seeking an accounting of funds held by federal officials on behalf of American Indians, district court's order that an accounting is...

Arkansas Dairy Coop. Ass'n. v. USDA

Administrative Law, Agriculture
In a petition for review of the Secretary of Agriculture's rule reducing the minimum price required to be paid to milk producers, the petition is...

Young America's Found. v. Gates

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Military Law
In an action seeking to compel the Secretary of Defense to withhold federal funds from a university that allegedly denied military recruiters equal...

Dearlove v. SEC

Administrative Law, Securities Law
In a petition for review of an SEC order barring petitioner from practicing as an accountant before the SEC, the petition is denied where: 1) the SEC...

American Equity Inv. Life Ins. Co. v. SEC

Administrative Law, Securities Law
In a petition for review of an SEC rule stating that fixed indexed annuities are not "annuity contracts" within the meaning of the Securities Act...

Lytes v. D.C. Water & Sewer Auth.

Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an Americans with Disabilities Act action claiming that defendant refused to accommodate plaintiff's disability and then terminated his employment,...

Sec'y. of Labor v. Nat'l. Cement Co. of Cal.

Administrative Law, Labor & Employment Law, Transportation
In the Secretary of Labor's petition for review of a Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission decision that the Secretary lacked jurisdiction...

US v. Thomas

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Defendant's firearm possession sentence is vacated where 1) the law of the case doctrine precluded the district court from revisiting its...