United States First Circuit - Opinion Summaries

MACAULAY v. ANAS

Civil Procedure, Evidence, Health Law
Claims that the district court erred by (1) refusing to grant plaintiff's eve-of-trial motion for a continuance, (2) placing certain limitations on...

IN RE BOSTON HERALD, INC.

Attorney's Fees, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Media Law
There is no First Amendment or common law right of access to documents submitted by a criminal defendant to show financial eligibility for Criminal...

YOHE v. NUGENT

Injury & Tort Law, Media Law
Summary dismissal of defamation claims is affirmed, where the statements about plaintiff's mental state and arsenal were either (1) unrefuted...

MAINE SCH. ADMIN. DIST. NO. 35 v. MR. & MRS. R.

Attorney's Fees, Civil Rights, Education Law
Parents who successfully resist, in an independent legal action, the overturning of a stay-put placement on the ground of alleged dangerousness of a...

CURRIER v. U.S.

Criminal Law & Procedure
Where an order, vacating a conviction for use of a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking offense, was based on an erroneous finding...

KITTERY MOTORCYCLE, INC. v. ROWE

Constitutional Law, Transportation
A state law which authorize the sale of everything on Sundays except motor vehicles does not violate the US Constitution's guarantees of equal...

BOWLER v. HAWKE

Banking Law, Constitutional Law, Consumer Protection Law, Government Law, Insurance Law
Where the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's (OCC) opinion letter, stating that the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 (GLBA), Pub. L. No....

SAVARD v. STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

Constitutional Law
Prison officials who ordered strip searches are not entitled to qualified immunity where the law was clearly established that people arrested for...

MCINNIS-MISENOR v. MAINE MED. CTR.

Constitutional Law, Health Law
Under ripeness doctrines, plaintiff, a wheelchair-bound woman who plans to become pregnant, lacks standing to bring a claim under the ADA to compel a...

PALMER PAXTON STOUTT v. BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Banking Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Securities Law
A bank did not commit malicious prosecution when it reported that plaintiff had written a check from an account with insufficient funds, even though...