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   Federal Courts - 1st Circuit Court of Appeals - October 13 - October 18, 2006

  
Dube v. J.P. Morgan Investor Servs., No. 05-2487, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT, October 13, 2006, Decided
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Overview: Summary judgment for an employer was affirmed in an employee's action under ERISA and the FMLA because there was no abuse of discretion in the district court's refusal to award a statutory penalty pursuant to 29 U.S.C.S. § 1132(c)(1)(B), and the employer gave the employee the full 12 weeks, and more, of FMLA leave to which he was entitled.

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Panse v. Shah, No. 05-2680, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT, October 13, 2006, Decided
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United States v. Anziani, No. 05-2165, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT, October 13, 2006, Decided
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Overview: Defendant's 121-month sentence for his participation in a heroin-trafficking conspiracy was affirmed because the district court's explanation for the sentence was adequate under 18 U.S.C.S. § 3553(a).

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United States v. Gonzalez-Velez, No. 05-1184, No. 05-1758, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT, October 13, 2006, Decided
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Overview: Jury instructions and special verdict form were proper which required findings as to the guilt of each defendant and which gave directions to find a conspiracy-wide amount of cocaine that posed no risk that the jury would fail to find an element of the offense that increased the statutory maximum penalty nor created Apprendi or Blakely error.

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United States v. Malouf, No. 05-2245, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT, October 13, 2006, Decided
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Overview: Conviction for violating 21 U.S.C.S. §§ 841(a)(1) and 846 was remanded for sentencing because, upon finding by preponderance of the evidence that defendant was accountable for more than 500 grams of cocaine, ten-year mandatory minimum sentence under 21 U.S.C.S. § 841(B)(1)(b) applied. The amount did not have to be proved beyond a reasonable doubt.

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Clarke v. Gonzales, No. 06-1372, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT, October 18, 2006, Decided
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Overview: Petitioner's challenge to the constitutionality of the application of the IIRIRA to him based on the date that he was charged with removability was foreclosed by the court's earlier decisions.

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Evans v. Verdini, No. 05-2272, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT, October 18, 2006, Decided
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Overview: District court's denial of a inmate's petition for habeas corpus was affirmed because, at trial, the defense opened the door for the prosecution to impeach a prosecution witness's testimony that he never saw the inmate with a gun on the date of the murder. Thus, there was no evidentiary violation, much less a violation of the Sixth Amendment.

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