United States First Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Xu v. Gonzales

Immigration Law
Plaintiff's petition for review is denied where the Board of Immigration Appeals properly determined that he had not offered sufficient direct proof...

Venegas Hernandez v. Peer Int'l

Copyright, Intellectual Property, Trademark
A music publisher's unauthorized grant of a license to a third party to perform or copy a copyrighted work is not an act of infringement where there...

Mendez-Laboy v. Abbott Lab. Inc.

Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a tort action resulting from an industrial accident, dismissal of plaintiffs' claim is affirmed over their contention that defendant, as a...

US v. Laureano-Velez

Criminal Law and Procedure, Sentencing

AVX Corp. v. Cabot Corp.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Procedure
In a case concerning the application of res judicata, plaintiff's Sherman and Clayton Act claim is not precluded by its suit for unlawful price...

Akinfolarin v. Gonzales

Immigration Law
Plaintiff's petition for review is denied where the record does not compel a rejection of the immigration judge's determination that plaintiff failed...

Carcieri v. Norton

Administrative Law, Indian Law, Property Law & Real Estate
The Secretary of the Interior's decision to take into trust a parcel of land for the benefit of the Narragansett Indian Tribe is affirmed where the...

Brody v. Stone & Webster

Securities Law
Defendants' petition for rehearing, contending that the panel decision erred in vacating the district court-s dismissal of certain -controlling...

Surprenant v. Rivas

Civil Rights, Injury & Tort Law
In a prisoner civil rights action, a jury verdict in favor of plaintiff-pretrial detainee is affirmed where defendants' claims, alleging that the...

US v. Smith

Criminal Law & Procedure
The grant of defendant's motion to suppress is reversed where it was not objectively reasonable for him to believe that he was compelled to remain and...