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   Federal Courts - 8th Circuit Court of Appeals - June 20, 2007

  
Alberici Corp. v. Davis, No. 06-3436, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT, June 20, 2007, Filed
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Butler v. Astrue, No. 06-4156, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT, June 20, 2007, Filed
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Overview: The denial of a claimant's application for benefits under the Social Security Act was affirmed because there was nothing improper in the ALJ's treatment of the treating physician's opinion as substantial evidence supported the conclusion it was inconsistent with the record as a whole.

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Chaffin v. City of Fort Smith, No. 06-1301, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT, June 20, 2007, Filed 
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Davison v. City of Minneapolis, No. 06-2368, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT, June 20, 2007, Filed
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Overview: Evidence of chief's knowledge of union member's protected activities and his expressed displeasure with them, in combination with the proximity of three promotion denials, created a genuine issue of material fact as to whether the promotion decisions were at least in part motivated by union member's First Amendment protected activities.

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Day v. Emery, No. 06-2123, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT, June 20, 2007, Filed
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Finch v. Miller, No. 06-3790, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT, June 20, 2007, Filed
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Overview: Inmate's second habeas petition was properly dismissed as time-barred under AEDPA's one-year statute of limitations and state-created impediments did not render his petition timely under 28 U.S.C.S. § 2244(d)(1)(B) as he failed to show that alleged shortcomings in library or legal assistance program hindered his efforts to pursue legal claim.

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Lenz v. Wade, No. 06-3017, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT, June 20, 2007, Filed
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Overview: A judgment entered against prison warden in inmate's § 1983 and Arkansas Civil Rights Act of 1993 suit was reversed because evidence did not support district court's finding that he was deliberately indifferent to inmate's safety. Evidence did not establish that warden knew that corrections officers posed substantial risk of serious harm to inmate.

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Obah v. Gonzales, No. 06-1594, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT, June 20, 2007, Filed
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Overview: IJ's finding that an alien did not show that her asylum application was timely was unreviewable under 8 U.S.C.S. § 1158(a)(3). The alien's lack of credibility was a sufficient basis for denial of withholding of removal under 8 U.S.C.S. § 1231(b)(3) and relief under the CAT; the IJ found that purported corroborating documents were fraudulent.

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Richmond v. Cont'l Cas. Co., No. 06-2440, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT, June 20, 2007, Filed
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Overview: The dismissal of an ERISA action was affirmed because the district court correctly applied the abuse-of-discretion standard of review; while the insurance company's dual role may be "palpable evidence of a conflict of interest," the employee failed to point to any evidence that the conflict caused a serious breach of its fiduciary duty to her.

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Touho v. Gonzales, No. 06-2953, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT, June 20, 2007, Filed
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Overview: Alien's petition for review of BIA's denial of adjustment of status and hardship waiver was dismissed because such decisions were within Attorney General's discretion, and under 8 U.S.C.S. §§ 1182(i)(2), 1252(a)(2)(B)(i), court lacked jurisdiction to review decisions except for constitutional claims and questions of law, which alien did not raise.

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