United States First Circuit - Opinion Summaries

D.B. Zwirn Special Opportunities Fund, LP v. Mehrotra

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Injury & Tort Law
In an appeal from a judgment of the district court dismssing plaintiff's diversity complaint alleging various fraud claims, appeal is stayed because...

US v. Kelly

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
In an appeal from a judgment of the district denying defendant's motion to dismiss an indictment for violation of the Speedy Trial Act (STA), judgment...

Avery v. Hughes

Contracts, Property Law & Real Estate, Remedies
In an appeal from a judgment of the district court awarding plaintiff actual damages in an action for breach of a real estate purchase agreement,...

US v. Romero-Lopez

Criminal Law & Procedure, Ethics & Disciplinary Code, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Sanctions
In an appeal from an order of the district court imposing sanctions on appellant-attorney, judgment is affirmed as modified where the court correctly...

Balser v. IUE Local 201

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
In an appeal from an order dismissing plaintiff's labor complaint on summary judgment, order is affirmed where plaintiff's allegations of wrongdoing...

Carreras v. PMG Collins LLC

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Property Law & Real Estate
In an appeal from a judgment of the district court dismissing appellants' complaint for return of earnest payments in a real estate transaction for...

Sicaju-Diaz v. Holder

Administrative Law, Immigration Law
In a petition for review of an order of the BIA reversing an administrative grant of asylum and denying petitioner, a native and citizen of Guatemala,...

Farris v. Shinseki

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law
In an appeal from a judgment of the district court dismissing appellant's disability discrimination complaint for failure to timely file a formal...

Field v. Napolitano

Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law
In an appeal from a judgment of the district court dismissing appellant's complaint for employment discrimination on account of his disability and...

P. R. Tel. Co., Inc. v. Telecommunications Regulatory Bd.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Communications Law, Contracts, Remedies
In an appeal from a judgment of the district court concerning the intercarrier compensation due under an interconnection agreement, judgment is: 1)...