Every decision we've summarized from United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
The First Circuit affirmed the sentence of a registered sex offender convicted of attempting to entice a minor and transfer obscene material, rejecting claims of prosecutorial misconduct, ineffective assistance of counsel, and substantive unreasonableness.
The First Circuit denied a petition challenging the dismissal of an adjustment of status appeal due to lack of jurisdiction. However, the court granted a petition to reopen the appeal, finding the Board of Immigration Appeals abused its discretion by denying a motion based on ineffective assistance of counsel.
The First Circuit denied a petition challenging the dismissal of an immigration appeal due to lack of jurisdiction over discretionary decisions. However, the court granted a separate petition to reopen the appeal, finding the Board of Immigration Appeals abused its discretion by denying a motion based on ineffective assistance of counsel.
The First Circuit affirmed a forty-eight-month prison sentence for a defendant who violated a plea agreement by possessing a machinegun while on supervised release. The court held that the government did not breach its plea agreement by advocating for a high-end sentence within the agreed range while citing community violence concerns.
The First Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a qui tam action under the False Claims Act, holding that the relators failed to plead fraud with the particularity required by Federal Rule of Civil Procedure nine point B.
The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit reversed the district court's denial of a motion to dismiss, holding that the plaintiffs lacked standing to pursue prospective relief under Section nineteen eighty-three because they failed to allege a concrete and imminent injury.
The First Circuit affirmed the conviction and sentence of Adam Johnson, finding that his arguments regarding the admissibility of his plea and cooperation agreements and sentencing enhancements were either unpreserved or lacked merit.
The First Circuit denied a petition for review of a Board of Immigration Appeals decision denying cancellation of removal. The court upheld the agency's finding that the petitioner failed to prove exceptional and extremely unusual hardship to his U.S. citizen daughters.
The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued an errata sheet to correct minor typographical errors in its opinion. The corrections address specific word replacements on pages thirteen, thirty-six, and forty-two of the original text.
The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued an errata sheet to correct a minor textual error in its prior opinion. The amendment replaces the word that with the on page twenty-eight, line two of the original decision.