United States First Circuit - Opinion Summaries

In re: Citigroup, Inc. Capital Accumulation Plan Litig.

Contracts, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Labor & Employment Law, Securities Law
In an action challenging Citigroup's Capital Accumulation Plan, which gives certain employees the option of receiving part of their compensation as...

Garcia v. Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.

Civil Rights, Evidence, Labor & Employment Law
In an engineer's Title VII suit alleging the termination of her employment was motivated by gender discrimination and not, as defendant-employer said,...

Town of Winthrop v. Federal Aviation Administration

Administrative Law, Construction, Environmental Law, Government Law
Petition for review of an FAA order permitting construction of a new taxiway at Boston's Logan International Airport is denied over claims of error...

In re: Arch Wireless, Inc.

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Remedies
In proceedings arising after a bankruptcy discharge, in which a creditor argued that it did not receive proper notice of Chapter 11 bankruptcy...

Kechichian v. Mukasey

Immigration Law
In an immigration proceeding, petition for review of a final order of removal is denied where: 1) petitioner was not entitled to withholding of...

US v. Skerret-Ortega

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
In a criminal prosecution of several co-defendants for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine and marijuana, wherein the trial...

Fiacco v. Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity

Constitutional Law, Education Law, Injury & Tort Law, Media Law, Remedies
In a diversity action brought against a national fraternity wherein plaintiff claimed that its members intentionally caused him emotional distress by...

Phillips v. Prairie Eye Ctr.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
In a lawsuit brought by a Massachusetts plaintiff claiming defendant breached an alleged employment contract entered in and for a job in Illinois,...

US v. Ruidiaz

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
In a prosecution for possession of firearms and ammunition by a convicted felon, denial of defendant's motion to suppress evidence, discovered from a...

Santosa v. Mukasey

Constitutional Law, Evidence, Immigration Law
Petition for review of an order denying petitioner's request for asylum, withholding of removal, and CAT based relief is denied where: 1) petitioner...