 |
|
 |
|
|
Access State and Federal Case Law, plus U.S. Supreme Court cases — for free!
Click on any of the case links below to view the full text of that case — for free — through lexisONE®, a legal research and news service from LexisNexis®. Login is required — registration is free!
While viewing the full text of the case, select from upgrade options to Shepardize® or view the fully-featured case on lexis.com including Core Terms, Shepard's® Signals, Case Summaries, Print Options, and more. lexisONE offers access to comprehensive content and flexible services for faster, more efficient legal research. Review our flexible LexisNexis® subscriptions offered through daily, weekly or monthly research packages.
| Huang v. Gonzales, No. 04-2714,
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT, February 15, 2006, Decided
View this case - free |
|||||
Overview: An alien's amended political asylum application was properly denied because the IJ reasonably rejected the alien's failure to mention his wife's forced sterilization in the first asylum application as mere oversight and explicitly stated that the alien's testimony was inconsistent and contradictory.
|
|||||
| Lynch v. Ficco, No. 05-2183,
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT, February 15, 2006, Decided
View this case - free |
|||||
Overview: Inmate's 28 U.S.C.S. § 2254 claim was procedurally defaulted where he failed to object to jury instructions at trial, he did not claim that he was actually innocent of the murder, and counsel was not ineffective for failing to object to the jury instructions because correct instructions were given on government's bearing burden of proving malice.
|
|||||
| Rivera-Feliciano v. Acevedo-Vila, No. 05-2473,
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT, February 15, 2006, Decided
View this case - free |
|||||
Overview: Abstention was appropriate in case challenging Puerto Rico's right to reincarcerate individuals convicted of murder and released under electronic surveillance program because there were unresolved issues of Puerto Rico administrative and statutory law and arguments identical to plaintiffs' were pending before Puerto Rico Supreme Court.
|
|||||
| United States v. Turner, No. 04-2238,
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT, February 15, 2006, Decided
View this case - free |
|||||
Overview: Defendant's juvenile convictions were properly counted in assessing his criminal history category under U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual § 4A1.2(d) because, pursuant to Tenn. Code Ann. § 37-1-159(b), his mere filing of a notice of appeal in juvenile court from a first-tier conviction for arson did not vacate that conviction.
|
|||||
| Aguiar v. Gonzales, No. 04-2735,
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT, February 16, 2006, Decided
View this case - free |
|||||
Overview: An immigrant was subject to deportation under 8 U.S.C.S. § 1227(a)(2)(A)(iii) because the offense of third degree sexual assault under R.I. Gen. Laws § 11-37-6 (1997) was a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C.S. § 16 since it involved a substantial risk of physical force due to the presumed higher age and experience of the perpetrator.
|
|||||
| Rodriguez-Marin v. Rivera-Gonzalez, No. 04-1492,
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT, February 16, 2006, Decided
View this case - free |
|||||
Overview: Puerto Rican government career employees, demoted after a Governor affiliated with the opposition political party was elected, were properly awarded damages because they presented sufficient evidence that their demotions were the result of improper discrimination based on their political affiliation, in violation of their First Amendment rights.
|
|||||
Back to Top
| www.lexisnexis.com | About LexisNexis | Terms & Conditions | Customer Support | Sitemap | Contact Us |
| CopyrightŠ 2008 LexisNexis® All rights reserved. |
