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The Fifth Circuit affirmed the revocation of supervised release and the imposition of an eleven-month prison sentence. The court held that the defendant's constitutional challenge to the statute was foreclosed by prior binding precedent.
The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's judgment revoking supervised release and imposing a sentence of imprisonment. The court rejected the appellant's arguments regarding the right to a jury trial and the consideration of breach of trust.
The Sixth Circuit affirmed summary judgment for jail officials in a civil rights suit alleging deliberate indifference to a pretrial detainee's suicide. The court held that the officers lacked subjective knowledge of a strong likelihood that the detainee would take his own life.
The Sixth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit challenging federal student loan repayment suspensions. The court held that the Mackinac Center for Public Policy failed to establish Article III standing to sue.
The Sixth Circuit affirmed a district court's denial of a petition to return a child to Martinique under the Hague Convention. The court held that the child was sufficiently mature and had raised a particularized objection to repatriation under the age-and-maturity exception.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment to TC Transcontinental Tulsa in a Title VII employment discrimination case brought by a pro se plaintiff.
The Seventh Circuit affirmed a summary judgment dismissal of a pretrial detainee's constitutional claims regarding medical care and conditions of confinement. The court held that the plaintiff failed to present specific, admissible evidence creating a genuine dispute of material fact regarding objectively unreasonable treatment.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the Merit Systems Protection Board's decision to uphold the removal of a Department of Veterans Affairs employee. The court found substantial evidence supported the agency's finding that it would have removed the employee regardless of any protected whistleblowing activity.
The Tenth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by a man convicted of disorderly conduct and criminal trespass after refusing to wear a mask in a Salvation Army store. The court held that the private store employees did not act under color of state law and that the judge and prosecutor involved in the state proceedings were protected by absolute immunity.
The Eighth Circuit affirmed a district court order denying a judgment creditor's motion to depose its former counsel regarding a third-party defendant's finances. The court held that the proposed discovery violated a prior order prohibiting further inquiry into the third party's finances absent new evidence of fraudulent transactions.
