 |
|
 |
|
|
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.
| Martins v. Gonzales, No. 05-2295,
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT, June 23, 2006, Decided
View this case - free |
|||||
Overview: Petition for review pursuant to 8 U.S.C.S. § 1252 of the BIA's summary affirmance of an IJ's decision to deny a Brazilian citizen's application for political asylum was denied; the IJ's decisions that the citizen was not a credible witness and to give no weight to the documents that he submitted were adequately supported by the record.
|
|||||
| McDonough v. City of Quincy, Nos. 04-1902; 04-1969,
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT, June 23, 2006, Decided
View this case - free |
|||||
Overview: Police officer's Title VII retaliation action was not precluded by his earlier lawsuit because the issues in both cases were not identical; the evidence supported the jury's finding that the city's reasons for its actions were pretextual; the compensatory damages were high, but allowable; the punitive damages claim should have gone to the jury.
|
|||||
| Sterling Consulting Corp. v. IRS (In re Indian Motorcycle Co.), Nos. 03-1809, 05-1474, No. 03-2210,
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT, June 23, 2006, Decided
View this case - free |
|||||
Overview: Where a district court sanctioned the IRS for taking inconsistent tax assessment positions and allegedly delaying the case by seeking approval of a settlement, the IRS had Article III standing to appeal because the formal sanction order continued to have a potential real-world impact upon the IRS; the sanctions were found to be unsupported.
|
|||||
| United States v. Martinez, No. 04-1013,
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT, June 23, 2006, Decided
View this case - free |
|||||
Overview: Where defendant argued that affidavits in support of wiretaps on defendant's cellular telephones did not satisfy the "necessity" requirement of 18 U.S.C.S. § 2518, his motion to suppress was properly denied because, inter alia, the affidavits explained in detail how and why other normal investigative techniques were exhausted or not feasible.
|
|||||
| E. Sav. Bank fsb v. Lafata (In re Lafata), BAP NO. MW 05-055, Bankruptcy No. 04-44511-JBR,
UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY APPELLATE PANEL FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT, June 26, 2006, Decided
View this case - free |
|||||
Overview: A bankruptcy creditor was properly denied relief under Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b) from a bankruptcy court's orders bifurcating its claim into secured and unsecured portions because the creditor failed to exercise due diligence to discover that the debtor did not hold title to a dwelling securing a note, as the deed had not been delivered or recorded.
|
|||||
Back to Top
| www.lexisnexis.com | About LexisNexis | Terms & Conditions | Customer Support | Sitemap | Contact Us |
| CopyrightŠ 2008 LexisNexis® All rights reserved. |
