United States DC Circuit - August 2010 Opinion Summaries

Sigmund v. Starwood Urban Retail VI, LLC

Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action against the owners of a parking garage where plaintiff was injured by a car bombing, summary judgment for defendants is affirmed where...

TNA Merchant Projs., Inc. v. FERC

Administrative Law, Public Utilities
In petitions for review of two orders of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), holding that the rate schedule petitioner proposed for...

MBI Group, Inc. v. Credit Foncier du Cameroun

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Contracts, Government Law, International Law
In an action against the government of Cameroon and a state-owned mortgage finance corporation, alleging a breach of an agreement to develop low-cost...

Howmet Corp. v. EPA

Administrative Law, Environmental Law
In an action claiming that the EPA's "spent material" hazardous waste regulation violated the Administrative Procedure Act, summary judgment for...

Boardley v. US Dep't of the Interior

Constitutional Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a challenge to National Park Service regulations making it unlawful to engage in expressive activities within any national park unless a park...

NetCoalition v. SEC

Administrative Law, Commercial Law, Securities Law
In a petition for review of the SEC's approval of NYSE Arca's proposal to charge a fee to investors for access to its proprietary "depth-of-book"...

Phillips v. Fulwood

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
In an action claiming that plaintiff-inmate should be subject to the parole rules in effect at the time of his conviction in determining his...

US v. Tepper

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Defendant's sentence for possessing with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of crack cocaine is affirmed where defendant could not proceed under 18...

US v. Maynard

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing, Evidence
Defendants' convictions for conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine and 50 grams or more...

Koretoff v. Vilsack

Administrative Law, Agriculture, Civil Procedure
In an Administrative Procedure Act challenge to a Department of Agriculture rule mandating that almonds produced in the U.S. be pasteurized or...