2024 Eighth Circuit US Court of Appeals Case Law
Date: May 17, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1289
Justia Opinion Summary: This case involves a dispute between Jacam Chemical Company 2013, LLC (Jacam) and its competitor GeoChemicals, LLC, along with Arthur Shepard Jr., a former Jacam employee who later worked for GeoChemicals. Jacam sued…
Date: May 17, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1405
Justia Opinion Summary: The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reviewed a case involving a group of plaintiffs who owned properties near proposed wind turbine sites in Page County, Iowa. The plaintiffs sued the county, its…
Date: May 16, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1242
Justia Opinion Summary: Matthew Meinen, a white male, filed a lawsuit against his former employer, Bi-State Development Agency, alleging racial and gender discrimination, hostile work environment, and retaliation. Meinen claimed that he was…
Date: May 13, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1547
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves Anthony Willis, who was charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm. Willis requested to represent himself in court, a request that was granted by the magistrate judge after a hearing…
Date: May 13, 2024
Docket Number: 23-2720
Justia Opinion Summary: Mykel Lee McMillion was charged with knowingly possessing a firearm after having been convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for more than one year. The charge stemmed from an incident where police officers…
Date: May 10, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3506
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves Charles and Lisa Kass, parents of Brody Kass, who sued the Western Dubuque Community School District (the District) alleging that the District violated the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act…
Date: May 8, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1786
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves a group of grocery store owner-operators and their related company, Anchor Mobile Food Markets, Inc. (AMFM), who sued Onex Partners IV, Onex Corporation, Anthony Munk, and Matthew Ross (collectively,…
Date: May 7, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1059
Justia Opinion Summary: A high-speed police chase initiated by a deputy from Pottawattamie County, Iowa, ended in a collision in Nebraska, injuring Kirstie Wade and her children. Wade sued Pottawattamie County in a Nebraska federal district…
Date: May 7, 2024
Docket Number: 23-2234
Justia Opinion Summary: KOKO Development, LLC, a real estate developer, contracted with Phillips & Jordan, Inc., DW Excavating, Inc., and Thomas Dean & Hoskins, Inc. (TD&H) to develop a 180-acre tract of land in North Dakota. However, the…
Date: May 6, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1523
Justia Opinion Summary: Meyer, Borgman & Johnson, Inc. (MBJ), a structural engineering firm, sought research tax credits for expenses incurred in creating designs for building projects. MBJ claimed approximately $190,000 in tax credits for the…
Date: May 6, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1869
Justia Opinion Summary: The case revolves around an incident involving Corey Fisherman, an inmate at Minnesota’s maximum-security prison, and David Launderville, a prison guard. Fisherman was being transferred to a more restrictive area after a…
Date: May 3, 2024
Docket Number: 21-3880
Justia Opinion Summary: Sergio Rosas-Martinez, who had been living in the United States since he was nine years old, was arrested in 2019 for possessing illegal drugs. Following his conviction, the Department of Homeland Security initiated…
Date: May 2, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1700
Justia Opinion Summary: The defendant, Antjuan Dante Britton, was convicted of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance and conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance. He was sentenced to 240…
Date: May 2, 2024
Docket Number: 23-2364
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2021, Hugo Escudero was investigated as a suspected wholesale cocaine dealer based on information provided by a confidential informant. The informant claimed that Escudero and his brother were selling large amounts of…
Date: April 30, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3115
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2011, James Buchl and Doren Chatinover, electrical engineers with experience in oil fields, entered into an oral contract with Gascoyne Materials Handling & Recycling to work as project managers for a division of…
Date: April 30, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1134
Justia Opinion Summary: Bader Farms, Inc. sued Monsanto Company and BASF Corporation, alleging that its peach orchards were damaged by dicamba drift between 2015 and 2019 due to the defendants' negligent design and failure to warn. The jury…
Date: April 18, 2024
Docket Number: 23-2839
Justia Opinion Summary: Tyrone Cameron was convicted of being a felon in possession of ammunition following a three-day trial. The district court sentenced him to 120 months' imprisonment and a three-year term of supervised release. Cameron…
Date: April 17, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1114
Justia Opinion Summary: Devonte Veasley was charged with possessing a firearm while using a controlled substance, following an incident where he shot at his drug dealer. Veasley pleaded guilty to the charge. However, after the Supreme Court…
Date: April 10, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3235
Justia Opinion Summary: A Nigerian citizen, Okwuchukwu Jidoefor, pleaded guilty to mail fraud. As part of the plea agreement, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota agreed to send a letter to immigration authorities outlining…
Date: April 10, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1516
Justia Opinion Summary: Yasmin Varela filed a class action lawsuit against State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company (State Farm) after a car accident. Varela's insurance policy with State Farm entitled her to the "actual cash value" of…
Date: April 8, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1895
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves Noah’s Ark Processors, LLC, and the United Food and Commercial Workers’ Union. After the expiration of their previous collective-bargaining agreement, the parties began negotiations for a new one. The…
Date: April 5, 2024
Docket Number: 23-2179
Justia Opinion Summary: The defendant, Darion Thomas, was arrested at a hospital in Iowa while accompanying his sick child and the child's mother, Tyliyah Parrow. During the arrest, law enforcement found a gun on Thomas and a backpack…
Date: April 4, 2024
Docket Number: 22-2893
Justia Opinion Summary: In the case, Sease Beard, a transgender inmate, alleges mistreatment and retaliation by prison officials. Beard, who identifies as a transgender woman, has been provided hormone-replacement therapy by the Missouri…
Date: April 4, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1828
Justia Opinion Summary: Jeffrey Roads was convicted of transporting and accessing child pornography, and received a 324-month prison sentence. He appealed, alleging conflicts of interest among his defense counsel and the presiding judge. The…
Date: April 4, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1829
Justia Opinion Summary: In March 2021, Jeffrey A. Winder and Heather Durbin rented a room at a motel. During check-in, the motel manager, Gary McCullough, warned Winder that any illegal activity would result in eviction. The next day,…
Date: April 4, 2024
Docket Number: 23-2203
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case, the defendant, Cody Wayne Hopkins, was charged with Attempted Enticement of a Minor Using the Internet, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b). The accusation revolved around an online conversation Hopkins had…
Date: April 3, 2024
Docket Number: 22-1975
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed a district court's decision to impose sanctions on attorney Gregory Leyh and his law firm under Missouri Supreme Court Rule 55.03 and…
Date: April 3, 2024
Docket Number: 23-2173
Justia Opinion Summary: Jonathan Weber Arrington, the defendant, was employed by Recon Roofing and Construction to handle their finances. He was found guilty of wire fraud, having embezzled a total of $315,835 from the company between August…
Date: April 2, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1119
Justia Opinion Summary: Four ninth-grade football players at Park Hill High School in Kansas City, Missouri, were suspended or expelled after one of them created an online petition titled "Start Slavery Again" and the others posted comments…
Date: March 29, 2024
Docket Number: 21-2459
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves the death of Andrew Dawson Bell, who committed suicide while detained at the Washington County Detention Center (WCDC) in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Bell's mother, Judy Lynn Smith-Dandridge, filed a…
Date: March 29, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1508
Justia Opinion Summary: The case centers on an insurance dispute between Cardinal Building Materials, Inc. and Amerisure Insurance Company following damage to Cardinal's facility by a tornado. Cardinal initially received a payout from Amerisure…
Date: March 28, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1051
Justia Opinion Summary: Three shareholders of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac sued the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) and the Department of the Treasury, alleging harm from the unconstitutional removal restriction of the Housing and Economic…
Date: March 28, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1412
Justia Opinion Summary: The case revolved around Darron Mayo, who was appealing the denial of his motion to suppress evidence obtained from a hidden camera placed by police officers across his apartment door. The evidence from this camera was…
Date: March 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3048
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reviewed a dispute between two Honduran nationals, Dennys Antonio Reyes Molina and Eny Adamy Mejia Rodriguez, over the wrongful removal of their…
Date: March 21, 2024
Docket Number: 22-1902
Justia Opinion Summary: Christine M. Nordgren's parental rights were terminated in a Minnesota state court. Instead of appealing this decision, she filed a federal lawsuit against the Minnesota Department of Human Services, Hennepin County, and…
Date: March 21, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3137
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit considered the appeal of Osseo Area Schools (the District) against the ruling of the district court, which held that the District had denied A.J.T.,…
Date: March 21, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1207
Justia Opinion Summary: This case involves Aaron Norgren and his father, Joseph Norgren, who worked for the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS). Both men filed Title VII discrimination and retaliation claims against DHS, as well as…
Date: March 21, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1399
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case, a minor student known as A.J.T., who suffers from epilepsy, sued her school district, Osseo Area Schools, alleging disability discrimination for not providing her evening instruction sessions. A.J.T.'s…
Date: March 21, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1835
Justia Opinion Summary: The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed a district court's grant of summary judgment, based on qualified immunity, in favor of government attorneys Michael Spindler-Krage and Thomas Canan. The…
Date: March 20, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1847
Justia Opinion Summary: The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reviewed two cases where the district courts did not impose a $5,000 special assessment fee mandated by the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act on defendants…
Date: March 14, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1820
Justia Opinion Summary: The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit heard an appeal brought by DRE Health Corporation, a personal protective equipment (PPE) wholesaler, against a district court's decision to deny its motion to…
Date: March 12, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3675
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit was asked to determine whether Arkansas Code § 23-92-604(c), also known as Act 1103, was preempted by federal law. Act 1103 prohibits pharmaceutical…
Date: March 11, 2024
Docket Number: 22-2250
Justia Opinion Summary: This case from the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit involves a dispute between Midwest Medical Solutions, LLC and Exactech U.S., Inc. This is the second time the case has come before the court. The…
Date: March 11, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1553
Justia Opinion Summary: The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed a lower court's judgment in favor of a police officer who filed a lawsuit against the city of Omaha and the chief of police of the Omaha Police…
Date: March 8, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3399
Justia Opinion Summary: Thomas Springs was convicted by an Arkansas jury for the capital murder of his wife, Christina, and sentenced to death. The conviction and sentence were affirmed on direct review by the Arkansas Supreme Court. Later,…
Date: March 8, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1001
Justia Opinion Summary: The petitioner, Loing Yar, a native and citizen of South Sudan who entered the United States as a refugee, appealed an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) that denied his claim under the Convention Against…
Date: March 8, 2024
Docket Number: 23-2221
Justia Opinion Summary: In the case before the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, the defendant Nolan Ryan Morin, who had pleaded guilty to a false-statements charge, a class D felony, faced the revocation of his supervised…
Date: March 8, 2024
Docket Number: 23-2491
Justia Opinion Summary: In August 2020, Machele Goetz filed a Chapter 13 bankruptcy petition and plan. She owned a residence worth $130,000 and claimed a $15,000 homestead exemption under Missouri law. It was agreed that if the trustee…
Date: March 5, 2024
Docket Number: 22-2459
Justia Opinion Summary: The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation (MHA), an Indian nation of three affiliated tribes, appealed the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) approval of eight applications for oil drilling by…
Date: March 5, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3066
Justia Opinion Summary: The plaintiffs, Sandeep and Sarvani Thigulla, were lawful nonimmigrant workers seeking to become lawful permanent residents (LPRs) in the United States and had applied for approval of their Form I-485 applications with…
Date: March 5, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1148
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case, James Scott filed a civil rights lawsuit against the City of Sherwood, Sherwood City Attorney Stephen Cobb, and Sherwood City Code Enforcement Officer Sheila Reynolds. Scott owned property in Sherwood,…
Date: March 4, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3565
Justia Opinion Summary: Hector Herrera-Elias, a Honduran citizen, entered the United States unlawfully and was charged with removability. In response, he petitioned for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against…
Date: March 4, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3668
Justia Opinion Summary: Two former police officers, Thomas Noon and Christopher Skidmore, were dismissed from their jobs in Platte Woods, Missouri, after submitting a letter of grievances about the police chief, James Kerns, to the city's mayor…
Date: March 4, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1450
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2021, a warehouse developed by TriStar Companies, LLC but possessed by Amazon collapsed during a tornado, causing injuries and deaths. Several personal injury and wrongful death lawsuits were filed against TriStar,…
Date: March 1, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3201
Justia Opinion Summary: The case in question pertains to a dispute over the enforceability of dragnet clauses within mortgages used to secure loans funding Frank Welte’s farming operations. The Vera T. Welte Testamentary Trust, of which Frank…
Date: March 1, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3326
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, a nonprofit organization that sought to unseal court filings from federal criminal investigations. The District Court in Minnesota dismissed the…
Date: March 1, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3332
Date: March 1, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1579
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves Sanimax USA, LLC, who sued the City of South Saint Paul, Minnesota, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that the city's zoning and odor ordinances violated the First Amendment and Equal Protection Clause.…
Date: March 1, 2024
Docket Number: 23-2211
Justia Opinion Summary: In the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, Defendant Ledra Craig appealed his conviction for various counts related to the distribution of fentanyl. On August 2, 2020, Craig sold fentanyl to two men,…
Date: February 28, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3570
Justia Opinion Summary: In this breach-of-contract dispute, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld the decision of the District Court of Minnesota, which rejected Reach Companies, LLC's appeal for a new trial after a…
Date: February 28, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1345
Justia Opinion Summary: In the case before the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, Jesse and Dustin Sierra, convicted of various charges including kidnapping, interstate domestic violence, and aiding and abetting both…
Date: February 28, 2024
Docket Number: 23-2116
Justia Opinion Summary: In the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, the court considered an appeal by Whitehorse Ducharme, who had pleaded guilty to abusive sexual contact with a child and was sentenced to life in prison.…
Date: February 28, 2024
Docket Number: 23-2213
Justia Opinion Summary: The case was an appeal by the Continental Cement Company (Continental) against a decision by the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission. The Commission had determined that Continental had acted discriminatorily…
Date: February 27, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3338
Justia Opinion Summary: In a case before the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, the plaintiffs, The Arc of Iowa and several parents of children with disabilities, sought to challenge a provision of the Iowa Code that…
Date: February 27, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3653
Justia Opinion Summary: The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reviewed a petition by Israel Amador-Morales, a Mexican citizen, challenging the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) to deny his motion to reopen…
Date: February 26, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1209
Justia Opinion Summary: Catherine Brennan, after being prescribed psychotropic medications due to a stressful job transition, began to experience symptoms of akathisia, a neuropsychiatric syndrome associated with psychomotor restlessness often…
Date: February 26, 2024
Docket Number: 23-2121
Justia Opinion Summary: In the case before the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, the defendant Mary Linnell appealed her conviction for possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance. The case arose after a…
Date: February 26, 2024
Docket Number: 23-2421
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case, Tony Doolin was sentenced to 60 months of imprisonment and four years of supervised release for distribution of crack cocaine. After his release, Doolin lived in Iowa and possessed a medical-marijuana card,…
Date: February 23, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3573
Justia Opinion Summary: Kenneth Blair was convicted by a jury of possessing with intent to distribute and distributing methamphetamine, and was sentenced to 292 months in prison. Blair appealed the conviction to the United States Court of…
Date: February 23, 2024
Docket Number: 23-2431
Justia Opinion Summary: In the case before the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, the defendant, Donavan Jay White Owl, appealed an order of the district court denying his motion to dismiss an indictment based on the Double…
Date: February 22, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1260
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case heard by the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, the appellant, Timothy Eugene Angel, appealed against his sentence for possessing ammunition after having been convicted of a felony. Angel…
Date: February 16, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1676
Justia Opinion Summary: This case involves an appeal from the United States District Court for the District of South Dakota filed by the defendant, Nathaniel Crawford. Crawford was involved in a domestic dispute with his ex-girlfriend at an…
Date: February 15, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3071
Justia Opinion Summary: In the case before the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, One Love Housing, LLC, a company that operates a residential sober living home in Anoka, Minnesota, sued the City of Anoka for refusing to…
Date: February 13, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3126
Justia Opinion Summary: Kevin Ross filed for disability insurance benefits due to deep vein thrombosis in the left hip, a cervical spine disc replacement, and a bulging disc in the lumbar spine. Ross contended that these ailments rendered him…
Date: February 12, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1701
Justia Opinion Summary: The City of Richmond Heights, Missouri filed a claim with Mt. Hawley Insurance Company under a commercial property policy for losses of tax revenue due to government-mandated COVID-19 closures. Mt. Hawley denied the…
Date: February 12, 2024
Docket Number: 23-2182
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves Albert Collins, who was employed by the Kansas City Missouri Public School District. After the termination of his employment, Collins sued the school district, alleging racial discrimination and…
Date: February 9, 2024
Docket Number: 21-1795
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case before the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, Jet Midwest International Co., Ltd. (Jet Midwest International) sought attorneys’ fees and costs from Jet Midwest Group, LLC (JMG) and other…
Date: February 9, 2024
Docket Number: 22-2860
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit considered an appeal by several Missouri public officials who were denied qualified immunity by a lower court regarding five claims arising from a…
Date: February 9, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1461
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case heard before the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, the appellant, Dewanis Rogers, sought a reduced sentence under the First Step Act of 2018. Rogers had been found guilty in 2008 of…
Date: February 9, 2024
Docket Number: 23-3583
Date: February 8, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1243
Justia Opinion Summary: A defendant, John Radermacher, was found guilty of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine by a jury in the United States District Court for the District of South Dakota. Radermacher appealed his conviction to the…
Date: February 8, 2024
Docket Number: 23-2176
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2006, Charles H. Lester, Jr. was sentenced to 188 months' imprisonment and 5 years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine. After serving a portion of his supervised release term, the United…
Date: February 8, 2024
Docket Number: 23-2596
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed the lower court's decision that the Pacific Life Insurance Company did not owe benefits to Katie Blevins, the beneficiary of a life…
Date: February 7, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1179
Justia Opinion Summary: The case concerns the defendant, Roylee Richardson, who was convicted by a jury for witness tampering and possessing a firearm as a felon. After his arrest for attacking his then-girlfriend and shooting at her would-be…
Date: February 7, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1702
Justia Opinion Summary: Cynthia Bowen purchased an insurance policy from Farm Bureau Property & Casualty Insurance Company ("Farm Bureau") for her pick-up truck. She was injured when an employee of Menard, Inc. ("Menards") accidentally dropped…
Date: February 7, 2024
Docket Number: 23-2149
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case heard before the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, the defendant Ricky Timothy Williams was convicted of possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine,…
Date: February 6, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1514
Justia Opinion Summary: Cortez Ingram pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute cocaine base. Both parties recommended an 87-month sentence, but the district court for the Eastern District of Missouri imposed a 123-month sentence…
Date: February 6, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1522
Justia Opinion Summary: In the case before the United States Court of Appeals For the Eighth Circuit, the defendant, Kaycee Heard, appealed his 180-month sentence for involvement in a drug-trafficking conspiracy that transported oxycodone and…
Date: February 5, 2024
Docket Number: 23-6006
Justia Opinion Summary: The United States Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Eighth Circuit reversed and remanded a decision from the bankruptcy court in a case involving unpaid child support. The debtor, Justin Gary LaMonda, petitioned for…
Date: February 2, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3355
Justia Opinion Summary: Ronald Ragan, Jr. brought a suit against Berkshire Hathaway Automotive, Inc. (BHA) alleging that the company had copied his car dealership customer intake form ("Guest Sheet") without his permission, constituting…
Date: February 2, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3521
Justia Opinion Summary: The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's decision to increase the monthly restitution payment of Ronald Totaro, who was convicted in 2001 of sixty-one counts of various…
Date: February 1, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1229
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reviewed the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) decision to deny Peter David Davis's appeal to reopen his case. Davis, a Liberian citizen, was…
Date: January 31, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1279
Justia Opinion Summary: In the case before the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, Raymond Lee March appealed the denial of his motion to suppress evidence obtained from his home during a police search. March had pleaded…
Date: January 30, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3297
Justia Opinion Summary: In the case before the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, Curtis Stewart, an inmate in the Missouri correctional system, filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action against various Missouri Department of…
Date: January 30, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3564
Justia Opinion Summary: The defendant, Henry Watkins Jr., was stopped while driving by a police officer due to a mismatched license plate. Upon approaching the vehicle, the officer smelled marijuana and eventually found cocaine, ecstasy, and a…
Date: January 29, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3424
Justia Opinion Summary: In the case before the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, William Howard Proto, Jr., appealed his conviction on drug trafficking and firearms charges. Proto's appeal was based on the contention that…
Date: January 29, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1042
Justia Opinion Summary: The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed a lower court's ruling in a case involving Sarah Felts, who had been blocked on Twitter by Lewis E. Reed, the then-President of the St. Louis Board of…
Date: January 29, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1338
Justia Opinion Summary: In this appeal before the United States Court of Appeals For the Eighth Circuit, the defendant, Linda Riaski, who was convicted of one count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and one count of possession of a…
Date: January 26, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1413
Justia Opinion Summary: April Ingram, an African American woman, was employed as a Program Specialist by the Arkansas Department of Correction (ADC) from 2012 to 2021. She was responsible for the keys to office doors and the money designated…
Date: January 26, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1542
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case, James Bennett was convicted for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and sentenced to 300 months in prison. Bennett appealed, challenging both his conviction and sentence. The United States Court of…
Date: January 26, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1706
Justia Opinion Summary: The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed a lower court's decision to deny defendant Ki-Jana Kolajuan Ivey's motion to suppress evidence retrieved from his cell phone. Ivey, a convicted felon,…
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1379
Justia Opinion Summary: Contitech USA, Inc., a division of tire manufacturer Continental AG, contracted with a trucking company, McLaughlin Freight Services, Inc., and its owner, Dan McLaughlin, to deliver rubber between two of its facilities.…
Date: January 25, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1627
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves Alexzander Michael Carneal, who pleaded guilty to one count of distribution of child pornography and was ordered to pay restitution to twenty-one identified victims. Carneal appealed the restitution…
Date: January 23, 2024
Docket Number: 20-1724
Justia Opinion Summary: Sergio Mencia-Medina, a native and citizen of Honduras who entered the United States as a child with his mother, petitioned for a review of a decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA). Mencia-Medina was charged…
Date: January 22, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1602
Justia Opinion Summary: Glen Robert Anderson pleaded guilty to two counts of production and attempted production of child pornography, one count of enticement of a minor, and one count of interstate communication with intent to extort. The…
Date: January 18, 2024
Docket Number: 21-2533
Justia Opinion Summary: Valentino Bagola, serving a life sentence for two counts of first-degree murder, was required to pay $9,000 in restitution through monthly installment payments during his incarceration. When Bagola received funds as part…
Date: January 18, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3214
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case heard by the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, the defendant, Mickael Oliver, was convicted of six firearms-related felonies following a jury trial and was sentenced to 204 months of…
Date: January 16, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1048
Justia Opinion Summary: Jermaine Steven Daye pleaded guilty to arson, having set a fire in the hallway of an occupied apartment building. The presentence investigation report recommended classifying Daye as a career offender due to two previous…
Date: January 10, 2024
Docket Number: 22-2495
Justia Opinion Summary: The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled in a case brought by the State of Missouri against several Chinese entities, including the government of the People's Republic of China, the Wuhan Institute…
Date: January 10, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3452
Justia Opinion Summary: The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed the denial of Thomas Brewer's motion to vacate his sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. Brewer, who had been convicted of voluntary manslaughter and…
Date: January 8, 2024
Docket Number: 22-1830
Justia Opinion Summary: The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed a lower court's decision that an Iowa law violated the First Amendment. The law prohibited accessing an agricultural production facility under false…
Date: January 8, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3193
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's decision to grant summary judgment in favor of Officer Andrei Nikolov, who had been sued for excessive force under 42…
Date: January 8, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3464
Justia Opinion Summary: The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled in a case concerning a law in Iowa that penalized anyone who, while trespassing, knowingly placed or used a camera or surveillance device on the trespassed…
Date: January 5, 2024
Docket Number: 21-2218
Justia Opinion Summary: In 1996, Duane D. Worthington was charged with several crimes related to a robbery he committed in Iowa. The government sought enhanced penalties due to his past convictions for robbery and attempted robbery, which they…
Date: January 4, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3331
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case, UMB Bank, N.A. (UMB) filed a complaint against Jessie Benton and her children, alleging that they violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) by committing acts of mail, wire, and…
Date: January 3, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1741
Justia Opinion Summary: This case concerns the appeal of Gordon Grabau's sentence for receiving child pornography, with the appellant arguing that the district court erred in applying a two-level enhancement because he knowingly distributed…
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