Litigation

Eighth Circuit reverses above-guideline sentence for embezzing police officer
The Eighth Circuit has an interesting little sentencing ruling today in US v. Molnar, No. 09-1326 (8th Cir. Jan. 12, 2010) (available here). The simple fact that the Eighth Circuit reversed a sentence on a defendant's appeal is itself noteworthy,...

8th Circuit Rules Section 526(a)(4) Unconstitutional as Applied to Attorneys
The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit just ruled on a matter of first impression among circuit courts--the constitutionality of the treating attorneys as "debt relief agencies" under provisions of the 2005 Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Creditors'...

Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals Has RSS Feed
Want case summaries delivered to Bloglines, Google Reader, or whatever RSS device you use? The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals now has an RSS feed: http://www.ca8.uscourts.gov/rss/ca8opns_rss...

A (questionable) Eighth Circuit reversal of a reduction in crack guideline retroactivity case
The implementation of the retroactive crack guidelines has produced a lot of federal circuit court rulings, though most have involved a circuit affirming a district court's decision to deny a reduction to a defendant...

Two notable sentencing rulings from the Eighth Circuit
More proof that Gall and Kimbrough do not mean defendants always win sentencing appeals comes from two published decisions today from the Eighth Circuit. My friends cut and paste help me provide these unofficial summaries from this official circuit webpage:...

Eighth Circuit tries to unpack Kimbrough in en banc ruling
Resolving a post-Booker case that's been keeping the Circuit busy for years, the Eighth Circuit today issues another opinion in US v. Spears, No. 05-4468 (8th Cir. June 23, 2008) (en banc) (available here)...

urban-rural rivalries
The December 2008 issue of the Eighth Circuit Bar Association's newsletter calls a Second Circuit judge to task for suggesting that the Eighth Circuit was not sufficiently sensitive to the problem of guns and urban crime...

Claiming not to have received notice of an appealable order as an excuse for an untimely appeal in the era of CM/ECF
Claiming not to have received notice of an appealable order as an excuse for an untimely appeal in the era of CM/ECF: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit issued this ruling today...

Eighth Circuit Upholds SORNA
In what appears to be the first federal circuit court ruling addressing the constitutionality of the federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit decided July 31 that the provision of the...

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DLP
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Petrochemical Overruns
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