Writing for a unanimous panel, Circuit Judge Rendell on Thursday affirmed a 149-month sentence for a $2 million COVID fraud scheme after finding the district court properly applied a leadership enhancement, ruling that even though the court 'erred in not fo...
Chief Judge David J. Barron, joined by Circuit Judge Sandra L. Lynch and visiting Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer, on Thursday vacated a Puerto Rico district court's denial of a pro se petition challenging boat forfeiture, finding that the lower court '...
Circuit Judge Aframe, joined by Judges Montecalvo and Thompson, on Friday vacated a preliminary injunction against Maine's firearm waiting period law, holding that the statute 'likely regulates conduct outside the Second Amendment's plain text' and thus doe...
A Tenth Circuit panel Wednesday affirmed the denial of a Kansas pharmacist's bid to overturn his Medicare and Medicaid fraud convictions based on faulty jury instructions, ruling that instruction errors affecting his overturned narcotics distribution charge...
The Eighth Circuit on Wednesday denied sovereign and qualified immunity to Missouri State Highway Patrol officials, saying they can be sued over a trooper's arrest of a man for gun possession despite his expunged felony conviction, finding the arrest violat...
A Seventh Circuit panel on Wednesday reversed a district court's ruling that struck down the federal felon-in-possession gun law as unconstitutional in all applications, with Judge Frank Easterbrook writing that 'it is difficult to conclude that ยง922(g)(1)...
The Seventh Circuit on Wednesday upheld the federal felon-in-possession law against a convicted drug dealer, ruling that his cocaine distribution conviction qualifies as a "dangerous" felony that allows permanent disarmament under the Second Amendment.
The Seventh Circuit on Wednesday upheld Wisconsin's denial of a concealed-carry permit to a veteran convicted by military court of distributing peyote, rejecting his Full Faith and Credit and Second Amendment challenges and declaring that 'governments may d...
The Seventh Circuit on Wednesday largely rejected Illinois prison officials' challenge to a federal consent decree governing medical care for inmates, affirming a district judge's decision that requires specific findings under federal prison law before any...
The Seventh Circuit on Tuesday upheld a federal judge's modification of an Illinois prison medical care consent decree, ruling that enforcement of an implementation plan requires findings under the Prison Litigation Reform Act, declaring 'the implementation...
A Sixth Circuit panel on Wednesday upheld a felon-in-possession defendant's enhanced 15-year sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act, ruling that three prior convictions from Florida and Ohio qualified as violent felonies despite 'complex questions abo...
A Sixth Circuit panel on Friday reversed a federal judge's grant of habeas relief to a Michigan woman convicted of second-degree murder, ruling that the state court's refusal to give a defense-of-others jury instruction was not "an error well understood and...
A Fifth Circuit panel on Friday reversed a Mississippi federal judge's suppression of drug evidence and statements, finding officers acted in good faith when relying on a search warrant that was "not wholly conclusory" despite containing "boilerplate" langu...
The First Circuit on Wednesday affirmed Kevin Lee Ross's child pornography conviction, rejecting his argument that stipulating to evidence should have blocked the government from displaying 'graphic' images of child sexual abuse, with the court ruling that...
The Eighth Circuit on Monday upheld a domestic violence conviction and rejected arguments that a defendant's incriminating statements to police should have been suppressed, ruling that brief conversations on his front doorstep did not constitute custodial i...
The Eighth Circuit on Tuesday vacated a Native American ranch hand's witness tampering conviction while affirming 13 other charges including child sexual abuse, ruling the government failed to prove he "contemplated a particular, foreseeable proceeding" whe...
The Eighth Circuit on Tuesday rejected Dante Williams' challenge to his 444-month prison sentence for two home invasion robberies that resulted in a woman's death, affirming a Nebraska federal judge's application of the sentencing package doctrine after the...
The Sixth Circuit on Tuesday vacated a Tennessee federal judge's denial of early supervised release termination for a drug offender, ruling that courts cannot use "blanket rules" requiring defendants to serve half their terms without individualized assessme...
A Sixth Circuit panel on Tuesday reversed a federal judge's partial denial of qualified immunity to Detroit police officers accused of using excessive force during a 2019 arrest, ruling that the officers' actions against Derek Aaron, who was suspected of vi...
The First Circuit on Tuesday upheld 27-month prison sentences for two brothers who admitted bribing energy program officials to secure lucrative contracts, rejecting their claims that the judge miscalculated their criminal proceeds at 'multimillions' instea...