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The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit granted the Government's motion to dismiss an appeal based on a plea agreement waiver. The court dismissed the defendant's challenges to his sentence with prejudice.
The Sixth Circuit denied a petition for review of a Board of Immigration Appeals order rejecting an asylum seeker's claims for withholding of removal and Convention Against Torture protection. The court held that the petitioner failed to prove his fear of persecution was motivated by a protected ground rather than general criminal financial gain, and that he waived his CAT claim by failing to exhaust administrative remedies.
The Federal Circuit affirmed that a government agency's override of an automatic statutory stay in a federal procurement dispute was arbitrary and capricious. The court held that a bid protestor need not satisfy the traditional four-factor equitable test to obtain relief, preserving the mandatory stay mechanism under the Competition in Contracting Act.
The Eighth Circuit affirmed a district court's award of attorney's fees and costs to a defendant after the plaintiff lost a copyright infringement suit. The appellate court found no abuse of discretion in the lower court's decision to impose the financial penalty.
The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the denial of safety-valve relief to a defendant convicted of drug trafficking, holding that his possession of firearms was in connection with the offense. The court found that a pattern of mixed drug and firearm sales from the same location facilitated the drug enterprise, precluding relief under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f).
The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed the convictions and sentences of three defendants involved in MS-13 gang activities. The court rejected challenges regarding a protective sweep, jury impartiality, expert testimony, and the exclusion of impeachment evidence.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's decision in a nonprecedential ruling. The three-judge panel issued a per curiam judgment without providing detailed reasoning.
The First Circuit vacated one conviction and affirmed others where a police officer was convicted for brutality and obstruction, ruling that a hearsay statement from the victim violated the Confrontation Clause on one count.
The Eleventh Circuit affirmed a sentence of one hundred forty-four months for drug trafficking offenses. The court held that the district court did not plainly err by limiting its review of sentencing comparators to the Middle District of Florida.
The Sixth Circuit affirmed RICO and VICAR convictions for three MS-13 members, rejecting challenges to a protective sweep, jury selection, and expert testimony. The court held that the evidence sufficiently supported the gang-related murder conspiracy charges and that the district court did not abuse its discretion in its evidentiary rulings.
