United States DC Circuit - February 2010 Opinion Summaries

Overby v. Nat'l Ass'n of Letter Carriers

Contracts, ERISA, Labor & Employment Law
In an action seeking a declaration that a purported amendment to a trust plan, which would have rendered plaintiff ineligible to receive benefits...

Rumber v. Dist. of Colum.

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action to prevent the District of Columbia from acquiring a shopping center by eminent domain, dismissal of the complaint is affirmed where the...

Pasternack v. NTSB

Administrative Law, Transportation
In a petition for review of the FAA's revocation of petitioner's airman certificates on the ground that petitioner refused to take a mandatory drug...

Resolute Natural Resources Co. v. FERC

Administrative Law, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Oil and Gas Law
In a petition for review of certain orders of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) declining to investigate allegedly anticompetitive...

Iberdrola Renewables, Inc. v. FERC

Administrative Law, Contracts, Oil and Gas Law
In a petition for review of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) decision to allow a pipeline to change its rates without first obtaining...

Elliott v. US Dept. of Agric.

Administrative Law, Agriculture, Government Law
In an action under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to compel the U.S. Department of Agriculture to disclose blueprints to buildings located on...

US v. Davis

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Defendant's theft conviction is vacated where: 1) given defense counsel's failure to articulate a justification for a witness's proposed testimony...

Gonzalez-Vera v. Townley

Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, International Law, Judgement Enforcement
In an action seeking to invoke one of 18 U.S.C. section 3523's enforcement procedures, the appointment of a guardian to help collect a judgment...

Bush v. Dist. of Colum.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action by six minority members of a police department claiming that defendant police supervisor's racially discriminatory conduct and the...

Schuler v. PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In an action against an accounting firm alleging that the firm refused to make plaintiffs partners because of their ages, in violation of the Age...