USA v. Jorge Perez-Jacinto
Date: June 25, 2019
Docket Number:
18-41000
USA v. Juan Ramirez-Cazares
Date: June 25, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50938
Brandy Vaughn v. Ulta Beauty Cosmetics LLC
Date: June 25, 2019
Docket Number:
19-10039
USA v. Serrah Arnold
Date: June 24, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11042
USA v. Arturo Dominguez-Calderon
Date: June 24, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11238
USA v. Maurice Coleman
Date: June 24, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11494
I. L. v. Houston Indep. Sch. Dist., et al
Date: June 24, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20113
USA v. Ignacio Andrade-Lopez
Date: June 24, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20280
USA v. Ignacio Andrade-Lopez
Date: June 24, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20282
Cristina Sanchez v. Home Depot U.S.A., Inc
Date: June 24, 2019
Docket Number:
19-40039
USA v. Michael Hernandez
Date: June 21, 2019
Docket Number:
16-11150
USA v. Greg Clay
Date: June 21, 2019
Docket Number:
17-10524
Harmon v. Dallas County
Date: June 21, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10353
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, a former deputy constable, filed suit under 42 U.S.C. 1983 against defendants, alleging that they violated his First Amendment rights when he was terminated for reporting the illegal acts of the then-Constable…
United States v. Jones
Date: June 21, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10590
Justia Opinion Summary: USSG USSG 2K2.1(b)(4) requires only that one serial number be altered or obliterated on a firearm, even if others are clearly legible. The Fifth Circuit affirmed defendant's sentence after he pleaded guilty to being a…
USA v. Ruben Perez
Date: June 21, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20346
USA v. Clyde Pontefract
Date: June 21, 2019
Docket Number:
18-31237
USA v. Minkah Rashaad
Date: June 21, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40306
USA v. Josue Cruz-Garcia
Date: June 21, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40382
USA v. David Langenberg
Date: June 21, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40763
USA v. Steven Hahnel
Date: June 21, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40778
Young v. Board of Supervisors of Humphreys County
Date: June 21, 2019
Docket Number:
18-60618
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit under 42 U.S.C. 1983 against the Board and its president, alleging that defendants unlawfully deprived him of the use of several of his properties. After a jury returned a verdict for plaintiff, the…
USA v. Rex Duruji
Date: June 20, 2019
Docket Number:
17-20688
USA v. Reyna Martinez
Date: June 20, 2019
Docket Number:
17-40956
USA v. Marco Murillo
Date: June 20, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11252
USA v. Vincent Fanus
Date: June 20, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11431
Lamont Higgs v. Warden Wilson
Date: June 20, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11581
USA v. Bernardo Rodriguez
Date: June 20, 2019
Docket Number:
18-41034
USA v. Jesus Perez Rodriguez
Date: June 20, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50956
USA v. Roque Arias-De Jesus
Date: June 20, 2019
Docket Number:
18-51023
Troy Rogers v. Southern Finance L.L.C.
Date: June 20, 2019
Docket Number:
18-60822
United States v. Ortiz
Date: June 19, 2019
Docket Number:
17-11301
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's acceptance of defendant's guilty plea to possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon. The court first considered the entire record in assessing the…
USA v. Alvontre Griffin
Date: June 19, 2019
Docket Number:
17-30453
Rocky Hill v. Lorie Davis, Director
Date: June 19, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10967
USA v. David Kwan
Date: June 19, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11040
USA v. Ronald Tolliver
Date: June 19, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11062
USA v. Matthew Teague
Date: June 19, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11063
USA v. Ahmad Denson
Date: June 19, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11130
USA v. Efrain Oronia-Camacho
Date: June 19, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11245
USA v. Gerardo Trujillo
Date: June 19, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11432
USA v. Chelsey Aguirri
Date: June 19, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11531
USA v. Armando Ramirez, Jr.
Date: June 19, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20708
Plaintiff v. Defendant
Date: June 19, 2019
Docket Number:
18-30886
United States v. Sanchez-Hernandez
Date: June 19, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40211
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed defendant's sentence imposed after he pleaded guilty to illegal reentry into the United States after being previously removed. The court held that defendant failed to prove error affecting his…
United States v. Bree
Date: June 19, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40360
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit held that the special condition of supervised release imposed by the district court for defendant to participate in a mental health treatment program was not supported by the record. In this case, the…
Linn Operating, Inc. v. Oklahoma State Treasurer
Date: June 19, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40575
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit reversed the district court's holding that the bankruptcy court erred in dismissing a post-confirmation attempt by the Oklahoma State Treasurer to obtain the right to unclaimed royalty payments owed by…
USA v. Claudio Garcia
Date: June 19, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40744
USA v. Casmiro Aponte
Date: June 19, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40887
USA v. Gerardo Fuentes-Calvillo
Date: June 19, 2019
Docket Number:
18-41025
USA v. Guillermo Moreno-Correa
Date: June 19, 2019
Docket Number:
18-41135
Todd English v. Sonny Perdue
Date: June 19, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50530
USA v. Eusebio Reyes
Date: June 19, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50935
Bowles v. OneMain Financial Group, LLC
Date: June 19, 2019
Docket Number:
18-60749
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff appealed the district court's order compelling arbitration of her federal age discrimination action against OneMain. The Fifth Circuit held that, although the district court correctly rejected plaintiff's…
John Gardner v. Lorie Davis, Director
Date: June 19, 2019
Docket Number:
18-70012
Jones v. Davis
Date: June 18, 2019
Docket Number:
16-70003
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit treated respondent's petition for rehearing en banc as a petition for panel rehearing and granted it, withdrawing the court's prior opinion and substituting the following.
The court affirmed the…
USA v. Richie Krase
Date: June 18, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10639
USA v. Timothy Weirich
Date: June 18, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11128
USA v. Alexander Groys
Date: June 18, 2019
Docket Number:
18-41179
United States v. Parker
Date: June 18, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50058
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit denied petitioner a certificate of appealability (COA), dismissed his appeal for lack of jurisdiction, and sanctioned him for appealing his collateral attack on his conviction.
The court held that a…
Burton Kahn v. Robert Ripley
Date: June 18, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50554
Mark Estrada v. Anita Limon, et al
Date: June 18, 2019
Docket Number:
18-51010
In Re: City of Houston
Date: June 18, 2019
Docket Number:
19-20377
SEC v. Stanford International Bank, Ltd.
Date: June 17, 2019
Docket Number:
17-10663
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellants challenged the approval of a global settlement between the receiver for Stanford International Bank and related entities, and various insurance company underwriters, who issued policies providing coverage for…
United States v. Arellano-Banuelos
Date: June 17, 2019
Docket Number:
17-11490
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of defendant's motion to suppress and held that defendant was not in custody for purposes of Miranda. Considering all the circumstances of the interview and viewing…
USA v. Erwin Semien
Date: June 17, 2019
Docket Number:
18-41076
Keith Hill v. Lorie Davis, Director
Date: June 14, 2019
Docket Number:
16-20268
USA v. Marcelino Martinez
Date: June 14, 2019
Docket Number:
17-50889
Gary Willoughby v. Lorie Davis, Director
Date: June 14, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10695
USA v. Jose Vallejo, Jr.
Date: June 14, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40365
UMB Bank, NA v. Linn Energy, LLC
Date: June 14, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40443
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of Linn Lender's post-petition default interest and held that a reasonable person would not understand the reference to Linn Lender Claims in Article III.B.3 of the…
Christopher Helm v. USA
Date: June 14, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40651
USA v. Emmanuel Bailey
Date: June 14, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50400
Julia Duenas v. TDCJ
Date: June 14, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50713
USA v. Refugio Quintanar
Date: June 13, 2019
Docket Number:
17-11244
Sissom v. University of Texas High School
Date: June 13, 2019
Docket Number:
17-50913
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's dismissal of plaintiff's complaint, based on subject matter jurisdiction, against the University, UT High School, and various school officials, alleging claims of…
Horner v. American Airlines, Inc.
Date: June 13, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10036
Justia Opinion Summary: This action arose from a dispute over the integration of former TWA pilots into American Airlines' pilot seniority lists. Former TWA pilots filed suit against American and its union under the Railway Labor Act (RLA),…
Isaac Allen v. John Fox
Date: June 13, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40377
USA v. Reginald Gilbert
Date: June 13, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50660
Smith v. Davis
Date: June 13, 2019
Docket Number:
18-70015
Justia Opinion Summary: The district court held that the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' application of Witherspoon v. Illinois and its progeny was unreasonable because the state trial court violated petitioner's constitutional right to an…
Eric Massey v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden
Date: June 12, 2019
Docket Number:
17-30195
USA v. Pedro Munoz
Date: June 12, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10575
USA v. Pedro Ruiz
Date: June 12, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10583
Billy High, Jr. v. Vistasp Karbhari, et al
Date: June 12, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11461
Glassell Non-Operated Interests Ltd. v. Enerquest Oil & Gas, LLC
Date: June 12, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20125
Justia Opinion Summary: After a group of oil companies agreed to cooperatively develop oil prospects, EnerQuest acquired an interest in the specified area after the agreement took effect, but then refused to offer a share of those interests to…
USA v. Rajesh Un
Date: June 12, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20568
United States v. Garcia-Solis
Date: June 12, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40307
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed defendant's sentence imposed after he pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to transport undocumented aliens within the United States and two counts of transporting undocumented aliens…
Joseph Morgan v. Mark Patterson, et al
Date: June 12, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40333
USA v. Juan Recinos-Hernandez
Date: June 12, 2019
Docket Number:
18-41181
Limei Han v. William Barr, U. S. Atty Gen
Date: June 12, 2019
Docket Number:
18-60153
Jason Alston v. Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc.
Date: June 12, 2019
Docket Number:
18-60767
USA v. Howard Combs
Date: June 11, 2019
Docket Number:
16-11402
USA v. Jessica Bridges
Date: June 11, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11012
Kenneth Jackson v. USA
Date: June 11, 2019
Docket Number:
18-30916
USA v. Jose Lara-Garcia
Date: June 10, 2019
Docket Number:
15-40108
Hoyt v. Lane Construction Corp.
Date: June 10, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10289
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs filed suit in state court against C.E.N. Concrete, Storm Water Management, and Lane Construction after Jeffery Hoyt slid off an icy patch of road and drowned in his car in an adjacent body of water. All the…
USA v. Bryson Bright
Date: June 10, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11208
USA v. Luis Castaneda-Torres
Date: June 10, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11243
USA v. Marcus Tunchez
Date: June 10, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40530
United States v. Perez-Mateo
Date: June 10, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40768
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit vacated defendant's sentence imposed after he pleaded guilty to illegal reentry. The pre-sentence report (PSR) assessed two points stemming from a prior February 2017 misdemeanor conviction for aiding…
Anthony Collins v. Francisco Lara, Warden
Date: June 10, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40953
Forrest General Hospital v. Azar
Date: June 10, 2019
Docket Number:
18-60227
Justia Opinion Summary: Two Mississippi hospitals filed suit alleging that the government miscalculated their Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) payments. In this case, the district court gave substantial deference to the interpretation of…
Gonzalez v. Limon
Date: June 7, 2019
Docket Number:
17-40944
Justia Opinion Summary: 8 U.S.C. 1503(a)'s reference to "the final administrative denial" means the first final administrative denial. The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's dismissal of plaintiff's challenge to the USCIS's denial of a…
W. M. V. C. v. Barr
Date: June 7, 2019
Docket Number:
17-60753
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit denied a petition for attorneys' fees and expenses under the Equal Access to Justice Act. In this case, the court granted the government's motion to remand to allow the BIA to consider the issues raised…
USA v. Glenn Smith
Date: June 7, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11247
USA v. Pablo Balderas
Date: June 7, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11285
USA v. David Dill
Date: June 7, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11310
USA v. Edgar Lopez
Date: June 7, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20697
Leroy Lodge v. Libby Tigner, et al
Date: June 7, 2019
Docket Number:
18-30821
Jackie Boyd v. Carol Monroe, et al
Date: June 7, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40644
USA v. Eddie Warner, Jr.
Date: June 7, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40822
USA v. Armando Posada-Juarez
Date: June 7, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40946
United States v. Vinagre-Hernandez
Date: June 7, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50402
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction and sentence for aiding and abetting the possession of marijuana in the amount of more than 100 kilograms but less than 1,000 kilograms, with intent to distribute. The…
USA v. Diego Santos-Ferrufino
Date: June 7, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50668
USA v. Clovis Schexnayder
Date: June 7, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50777
Butler v. Coast Electric Power Assoc.
Date: June 7, 2019
Docket Numbers:
18-60365, 18-60372, 18-60383
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs, members of three rural power cooperatives, filed suit alleging that the cooperatives failed to refund excess "patronage capital" to their members as required by state law. In this case, the cooperatives…
Langley v. Prince
Date: June 6, 2019
Docket Number:
16-30486
Justia Opinion Summary: After petitioner was convicted of second-degree murder, the state court overturned the conviction on direct appeal. Then the State retried petitioner and reconvicted him.
The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's…
USA v. Alejandro Plaza-Montecillo
Date: June 6, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10688
USA v. Maricella Franklin
Date: June 6, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11217
USA v. Leonard Robinson
Date: June 6, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40199
USA v. Jorge Gracida-Infante
Date: June 6, 2019
Docket Number:
19-50421
USA v. Maximo Anastacio-Morales
Date: June 5, 2019
Docket Number:
16-40889
Hernandez Najera v. United States
Date: June 5, 2019
Docket Number:
17-41212
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment for the United States in an action brought by a foreign national from Honduras under the Federal Tort Claims Act, alleging that he was falsely…
USA v. Yoni Castro-Lopez
Date: June 5, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11191
USA v. Anthony Rodriguez
Date: June 5, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11336
Vencent Scales v. Charles Horsley, et al
Date: June 5, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11383
USA v. Carroll Griffin
Date: June 5, 2019
Docket Number:
18-30881
USA v. Ernesto Medina-Hinojosa
Date: June 5, 2019
Docket Number:
18-41068
USA v. Maria Castaneda-Garcia
Date: June 5, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50757
Calpine Corporation v. OSHC, et al
Date: June 5, 2019
Docket Number:
18-60413
USA v. Jose Salgado-Diaz
Date: June 4, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10032
USA v. Armando Martinez-Martinez
Date: June 4, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11076
USA v. Catherine Salas
Date: June 4, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11254
USA v. John Jones
Date: June 4, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11433
Ekhlassi v. National Lloyds Insurance Co.
Date: June 4, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20228
Justia Opinion Summary: 42 U.S.C. 4072, which provides for original exclusive jurisdiction in district court and a one-year limitations period, is applicable to actions against Write-Your-Own (WYO) carriers. WYO are private insurers which issue…
Eddie Carter v. Brown, et al
Date: June 4, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20522
In re: Raby
Date: June 4, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20826
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit denied a motion for an order authorizing the filing and consideration of a second-or-successive habeas corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. 2254. Assuming arguendo that movant's claim was not time-barred and…
USA v. Marco Gonzalez-Molina
Date: June 4, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40848
USA v. Nicolas Angulo
Date: June 4, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40899
Paul Butts v. Eric Wilson
Date: June 3, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11272
USA v. Robert Craig
Date: June 3, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11355
USA v. Adetilewa Ikuejuyone
Date: June 3, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20194
USA v. Juan Gonzalez-Arziga
Date: June 3, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40997
USA v. Jose Robles Parra
Date: June 3, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50687
USA v. Jaime Enriguez-Hernandez
Date: June 3, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50921
USA v. Alfredo Gonzalez-Terrazas
Date: June 3, 2019
Docket Number:
18-51002
In Re: Ashton O'Dwyer, Jr.
Date: June 3, 2019
Docket Number:
18-98009
Life Partners Creditors' Trust v. Cowley
Date: May 31, 2019
Docket Number:
17-11477
Justia Opinion Summary: This case arose from the Chapter 11 bankruptcies of Life Partners Holdings, LPI, and LPI Financial Services (collectively, the LP Entities). The LP Entities operated an investment business through which they defrauded…
USA v. Ronald Lee
Date: May 31, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10852
USA v. Raul Zapata-Dominguez
Date: May 31, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10975
USA v. James Nunley, Jr.
Date: May 31, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10985
United States v. Bailey
Date: May 31, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11223
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction and sentence for production of child pornography and possession of child pornography. Defendant conceded that relief on the issues he asserted was foreclosed under…
USA v. Donielle Ross
Date: May 31, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11318
USA v. Rodney Haley
Date: May 31, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11340
USA v. Edgar Castillo-Robles
Date: May 31, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11457
USA v. Derrick Guyot
Date: May 31, 2019
Docket Number:
18-31186
USA v. Oscar Rios-Melendez
Date: May 31, 2019
Docket Number:
18-41031
McGlothin v. State Farm Mutual Insurance Co.
Date: May 31, 2019
Docket Number:
18-60338
Justia Opinion Summary: Mississippi Code 83-11-101(1) and 83-11-103(c)(vi) of Mississippi's Uninsured Motorist Act are not repugnant. Section 83-11-101(1) requires that automobile insurers provide UM coverage to the extent the insured is…
Melvin Wiand v. T Harmon, et al
Date: May 30, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10425
USA v. Alexander Gallegos
Date: May 30, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10535
USA v. Magdaleno Torres-Lozano
Date: May 30, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11454
Mason James v. Teresa Anderson, et al
Date: May 30, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40815
USA v. Francisco Contreras-Abina
Date: May 30, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40840
USA v. Rene Gonzales, Sr.
Date: May 30, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40939
Karson Kaebel v. CIR
Date: May 30, 2019
Docket Number:
18-60683
Travelers Indemnity Co. v. Mitchell
Date: May 29, 2019
Docket Number:
17-60291
Justia Opinion Summary: After DNA evidence exonerated Phillip Bivens, Bobby Ray Dixon, and Larry Ruffin, who spent a collective 83 years in prison for the rape and murder of a woman in Forrest County, their estates filed a civil rights law suit…
Reinaldo Dennes v. Lorie Davis, Director
Date: May 29, 2019
Docket Number:
17-70010
Krystal Berry v. Albin Golla, et al
Date: May 29, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20487
USA v. Carlos Vega-Ruiz
Date: May 29, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40475
E. M. v. Austin Independent School Dist
Date: May 29, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50256
USA v. Jawara Smith
Date: May 29, 2019
Docket Number:
18-60526
USA v. Daniel Wilson, Jr.
Date: May 29, 2019
Docket Number:
18-60569
USA v. Brandon Williams
Date: May 28, 2019
Docket Number:
17-41232
USA v. Bruce Davis
Date: May 28, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10621
USA v. Jessie Huckel
Date: May 28, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10858
USA v. Pedro Moreno-Vazquez
Date: May 28, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10987
USA v. Jake Luera
Date: May 28, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20262
USA v. Ismael Garcia-Nicio
Date: May 28, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20731
USA v. Jamario Harris
Date: May 28, 2019
Docket Number:
18-30979
USA v. Miguel Garcia
Date: May 28, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40588
Jamal Hudson v. Edge
Date: May 28, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40743
Janvey v. GMAG, LLC
Date: May 24, 2019
Docket Number:
17-11526
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit granted a petition for panel rehearing and vacated the original opinion, substituting this opinion certifying a question to the Supreme Court of Texas: Is the Texas Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act's…
Lampkin v. UBS Financial Services, Inc.
Date: May 24, 2019
Docket Number:
17-20608
Justia Opinion Summary: Individual retail-brokerage customers of Paine-Webber who purchased Enron securities, and Enron employees who acquired employee stock options, filed suit against subsidiaries of UBS, alleging violations of the securities…
YPF S.A. v. Apache Overseas, Inc.
Date: May 24, 2019
Docket Number:
17-20802
Justia Opinion Summary: When the parties to a contract agree to arbitrate, rather than litigate, certain disputes that might later unfold, Congress directs federal courts to honor the parties' wishes. Under the Federal Arbitration Act, courts…
Webb v. Town of Saint Joseph
Date: May 24, 2019
Docket Number:
17-30267
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against the town and its mayor, alleging that they violated his federal and state constitutional rights by seeking—and then seeking to collect on—a judgment that he owed over $50,000 for violating a…
USA v. Jorge Payan-Morales
Date: May 24, 2019
Docket Number:
17-50789
USA v. Alexander Salazar
Date: May 24, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10652
USA v. Romelia Flores
Date: May 24, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10890
USA v. Patience Okoroji
Date: May 24, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11371
USA v. Akari Williams
Date: May 24, 2019
Docket Number:
18-30307
USA v. Thomas James
Date: May 24, 2019
Docket Number:
18-30834
Martinez Manzanares v. Barr
Date: May 24, 2019
Docket Number:
18-60315
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit denied a petition for review of petitioner's denial of asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (CAT). Petitioner alleged membership in three possible groups…
USA v. Roberto Ramirez
Date: May 23, 2019
Docket Number:
16-11373
USA v. Kathryn Dirks
Date: May 23, 2019
Docket Number:
17-11455
Gowdy v. Marine Spill Response Corp.
Date: May 23, 2019
Docket Number:
17-41198
Justia Opinion Summary: In this personal injury Jones Act case, the Fifth Circuit held that the district court did not err by failing to act on an allegation that defendant provoked plaintiff's attorney to withdraw. In this case, all evidence…
USA v. Robert Gray
Date: May 23, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11109
USA v. Donald Schafer
Date: May 23, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11226
USA v. Gilbert Garcia
Date: May 23, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11345
Eric Lozano v. Deborah Shubert, et al
Date: May 23, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20297
USA v. Jesus Carrizales-Segura
Date: May 23, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40370
USA v. Shannon Mays
Date: May 23, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40627
USA v. Shannon Mays
Date: May 23, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40628
Robert Bell v. Ralph Hanson
Date: May 23, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40706
USA v. Wilmer Hercules-Fernandez
Date: May 23, 2019
Docket Number:
18-41115
Nichols v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Co.
Date: May 23, 2019
Docket Number:
18-60499
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit reversed the district court's judgment granting plaintiff past and future long term disability (LTD) benefits and rendered judgment for Reliance. After plaintiff stopped work for a chicken processing…
United States v. Randall
Date: May 22, 2019
Docket Number:
17-11403
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit vacated defendant's sentence imposed after he pleaded guilty to production, transportation, and possession of child pornography, as well as committing a felony offense involving a minor while being…
USA v. Marc Booker
Date: May 22, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10700
USA v. Ben Gaines
Date: May 22, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11129
USA v. Mark Lee
Date: May 22, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11290
Jose Inocencio v. Martha Montalvo, et al
Date: May 22, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20176
USA v. Warren Brown
Date: May 22, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20620
USA v. Robert Ricks
Date: May 22, 2019
Docket Number:
18-30084
USA v. Aboudou Waka
Date: May 22, 2019
Docket Number:
18-30923
USA v. Roel Ramos
Date: May 22, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40957
USA v. Andres Lujan-Terrazas, Jr.
Date: May 22, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50628
USA v. Daniel Frausto
Date: May 22, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50745
Paul Valderas v. City of Lubbock, et al
Date: May 21, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11023
USA v. Shederro Brooks
Date: May 21, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11201
United States v. Tello
Date: May 21, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40347
Justia Opinion Summary: Border Patrol agents may conduct a canine sniff to search for drugs or concealed aliens at immigration checkpoints so long as the sniff does not lengthen the stop beyond the time necessary to verify the immigration…
USA v. Eryn Pressley
Date: May 21, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40798
USA v. Fermin Serrano-Estrada
Date: May 21, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40973
USA v. Christopher Wilson
Date: May 21, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50822
USA v. Alejandro Herrera-Alcaras
Date: May 21, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50905
Busby v. Davis
Date: May 20, 2019
Docket Number:
15-70008
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit treated the petition for rehearing en banc as a petition for panel rehearing pursuant to Fifth Circuit Internal Operating Procedures under Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 35. The court denied the…
USA v. Tammy Janicek
Date: May 20, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10872
USA v. Ronald Kipp
Date: May 20, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50775
Madeleine Connor v. Leah Stewart, et al
Date: May 20, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50815
USA v. Carlos Garcia-Garcia
Date: May 17, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11232
USA v. Larry Williams, Jr.
Date: May 17, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11408
Cohen v. Allstate Insurance Co.
Date: May 17, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20330
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against Allstate and its agent for breach of contract after Allstate refused to pay a claim for flood damage. The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's judgment in favor of Allstate, holding…
USA v. Tina Taylor
Date: May 17, 2019
Docket Number:
18-30941
USA v. Thomas Taylor
Date: May 17, 2019
Docket Number:
18-30946
Ruthen Weems, III v. Brent Stroman, et al
Date: May 17, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50170
USA v. Tomas Camacho-Ontiveros
Date: May 17, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50238
Gonzales v. Davis
Date: May 17, 2019
Docket Number:
18-70026
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner challenged the district court's denial of his petition for habeas relief relating to his alleged incompetence to stand trial on capital sentencing. The Fifth Circuit held that the district court erroneously…
USA v. Cy Viator
Date: May 16, 2019
Docket Number:
17-10806
Terrazas-Hernandez v. Barr
Date: May 16, 2019
Docket Number:
17-60522
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit held that the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) was not impermissibly retroactive as applied to petitioner, because no adjustment-application was pending at the time…
Melvin Wiand v. Eddy Mejia, et al
Date: May 16, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10705
Anthony Bell v. Kelly Strong, et al
Date: May 16, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20108
USA v. Bobby Ferrel
Date: May 16, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20721
Law Funder, LLC. v. Munoz
Date: May 16, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40320
Justia Opinion Summary: Law Funder filed suit against defendant and his law firm for legal malpractice. The district court found a series of discovery violations and related malfeasance, striking defendant's answer. After defendant did not move…
Cicalese v. University of Texas Medical Branch
Date: May 16, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40408
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs appealed the district court's dismissal of their national origin discrimination claims under Title VII against the University. The Fifth Circuit vacated the district court's dismissal of plaintiffs' disparate…
USA v. Nelson Valle
Date: May 16, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40948
United States v. Jones
Date: May 16, 2019
Docket Numbers:
18-50086, 18-50088
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit vacated defendant's conviction for possessing and conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, and possessing a firearm in furtherance…
USA v. Coy Jones
Date: May 16, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50088
Derrick Sumrall v. Marshall Fisher, et al
Date: May 16, 2019
Docket Number:
18-60311
Melissa Ivey v. Megan Brennan, et al
Date: May 16, 2019
Docket Number:
18-60663
Luna-Garcia v. Barr
Date: May 15, 2019
Docket Number:
16-60847
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit denied a petition for review of the BIA's order dismissing petitioner's appeal of the denial of her motion to reopen. The court rejected petitioner's contention that she was entitled to reopen the in…
USA v. Antwaine Yarbrough
Date: May 15, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11138
USA v. Osiel Gomez-Sanchez
Date: May 15, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11216
USA v. Matthew Phillips
Date: May 15, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11218
USA v. Clinton Hicks
Date: May 15, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11352
SEC, et al v. Albert Kaleta
Date: May 15, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20579
Cornelius Wilson v. Dennis Grimes, et al
Date: May 15, 2019
Docket Number:
18-30475
USA v. Alvin Neal, Jr.
Date: May 15, 2019
Docket Number:
18-30938
Ronnie Godoy v. F. Lara
Date: May 15, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40240
Masel v. Villarreal
Date: May 15, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40499
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs filed suit alleging that defendants induced them to join a business enterprise with material misrepresentations and omissions in violation of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Defendants proposed to…
Ernest Newman v. Warden Harris, et al
Date: May 15, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40558
USA v. Jose Vera-Chavez
Date: May 15, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40766
USA v. Isaac Ramos
Date: May 15, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50159
Lisa M. v. Leander Independent School District
Date: May 15, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50160
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's conclusion that J.M., a fourth grade student, was eligible for special education under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). The court held that the…
USA v. Laquaylan Patterson
Date: May 14, 2019
Docket Number:
17-40199
USA v. Laquaylan Patterson
Date: May 14, 2019
Docket Number:
17-40202
USA v. Rigoberto Mata, Jr.
Date: May 14, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11068
USA v. Trung Cao
Date: May 14, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11183
USA v. Daniell Navarez, Jr.
Date: May 14, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11237
William Abbott v. USA
Date: May 14, 2019
Docket Number:
18-30700
Lopez v. Pompeo
Date: May 14, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40175
Justia Opinion Summary: When this court dismisses a case due to failure of one particular jurisdictional element, and the party later cures that jurisdictional defect and brings a new suit, res judicata does not bar the second suit. Plaintiff…
USA v. Jesus Valdez
Date: May 14, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40404
USA v. Arturo Garcia
Date: May 14, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40875
USA v. Casmiro Aponte
Date: May 14, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40886
USA v. Miguel Olivera-Sanchez
Date: May 14, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40993
USA v. Gamaliel Salas
Date: May 13, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11112
USA v. Rajesh Bhatt
Date: May 13, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20506
McBride v. Riley
Date: May 13, 2019
Docket Number:
18-30535
Justia Opinion Summary: This dispute between the bankruptcy court and Chapter 13 debtor's attorneys involved no-money-down business models where the debtor's attorney agrees to advance the costs of filing fees, credit counseling course fees,…
McDonnel Group, LLC v. Great Lakes Insurance SE
Date: May 13, 2019
Docket Number:
18-30817
Justia Opinion Summary: After insurers denied McDonnel's claim, McDonnel initiated a declaratory and breach of contract action. The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's dismissal of the action in favor of arbitration and held that the…
USA v. Jaime Suarez-Jimenez
Date: May 13, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40783
USA v. Homero Vega-Cazares
Date: May 13, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50637
USA v. Homero Vega-Cazares
Date: May 13, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50638
USA v. Juan Revelo Salcedo
Date: May 10, 2019
Docket Number:
17-41245
USA v. Timothy Burns
Date: May 10, 2019
Docket Number:
17-60358
USA v. David Gomez
Date: May 10, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10312
USA v. Trystan Napper
Date: May 10, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10443
Benjamin v. United States
Date: May 10, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20185
Justia Opinion Summary: 42 U.S.C. 405(h)—which states that no claim arising under the Social Security Act can be brought under 28 U.S.C. 1331 and 1346—does not bar bankruptcy courts from exercising their jurisdiction under section 1334 to hear…
Carmona v. Leo Ship Management, Inc.
Date: May 10, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20248
Justia Opinion Summary: After plaintiff was injured while unloading cargo from a vessel docked outside Houston, he filed suit against LSM, a foreign corporation that manged the ship. The district court dismissed the complaint for want of…
USA v. Terrance Cochran
Date: May 10, 2019
Docket Number:
18-30628
United States v. Salcedo
Date: May 10, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40359
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction for two counts of using a means of interstate commerce to knowingly attempt to transfer obscene matter to a minor under the age of 16, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1470. The…
USA v. Terry Reddix
Date: May 10, 2019
Docket Number:
18-60568
Gabriel Cardona v. Lorie Davis, Director
Date: May 9, 2019
Docket Number:
17-10015
USA v. Fernando Paniagua
Date: May 9, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11004
USA v. Jamar Richardson
Date: May 9, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11225
USA v. Leslie Breaux
Date: May 9, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20322
USA v. Feliciano Flores-Galan
Date: May 9, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40805
USA v. Donnie Gray
Date: May 8, 2019
Docket Number:
17-11368
USA v. Jose Ortiz-Flores
Date: May 8, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11214
James Latiolais v. Eagle, Incorporated
Date: May 8, 2019
Docket Number:
18-30652
USA v. Isaac Caldwell
Date: May 8, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40601
Albert Smith, III v. Rachel Chapa
Date: May 8, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40681
USA v. Alan Johnson
Date: May 8, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50359
United States v. Vasquez-Hernandez
Date: May 8, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50492
Justia Opinion Summary: After appellants, each accompanied by a minor child, stated to Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) that they feared persecution in their home countries, they were arrested and charged with misdemeanor improper entry and…
USA v. Jesus Rios-Garza
Date: May 7, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10899
United States ex rel Lemon v. Nurses To Go, Inc.
Date: May 7, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20326
Justia Opinion Summary: Qui tam relators appealed the district court's dismissal of their False Claims Act (FCA) suit against several hospice organizations owned and operated by Walter Crowder, the president and director of Nurses to Go.
The…
Clay Riggs v. Winn Parish, et al
Date: May 7, 2019
Docket Number:
18-30564
USA v. Charlie Huerta
Date: May 7, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40645
USA v. Jose Lopez-Garcia
Date: May 7, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40882
USA v. Jose Trejo
Date: May 7, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40981
USA v. Karel Machado-Almeida
Date: May 7, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50268
USA v. Francisco Silva-Urgell
Date: May 7, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50524
USA v. Choyce Tolliver
Date: May 7, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50774
United States v. Torres
Date: May 6, 2019
Docket Number:
16-20191
Justia Opinion Summary: On remand from the Supreme Court, the Fifth Circuit held that defendant's prior Texas aggravated assault conviction was a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. 16(a). The court held that a knowing threat to another of…
USA v. Frederico Gonzalez
Date: May 6, 2019
Docket Number:
17-11064
USA v. Ronee Williams
Date: May 6, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10177
USA v. Zacarias Blanco-Olea
Date: May 6, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10451
USA v. Oscar Hernandez-Davila
Date: May 6, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11058
USA v. Tory Love
Date: May 6, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40808
USA v. Arnoldo Lopez
Date: May 6, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50275
Cantarero-Lagos v. Barr
Date: May 6, 2019
Docket Number:
18-60115
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed the BIA's order denying petitioner and her son's applications for asylum and withholding of removal. The court held that the BIA was not required to consider a reformulated particular social…
USA v. William Rand
Date: May 3, 2019
Docket Number:
17-11270
USA v. Antolin Abonza
Date: May 3, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10527
USA v. Alcadio Caballero De La Torre
Date: May 3, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10612
USA v. Kirk Keshler
Date: May 3, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10864
USA v. Rodney Broach
Date: May 3, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10869
USA v. Gary Ice
Date: May 3, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11054
USA v. Uri Morales-Catarino
Date: May 3, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11150
USA v. Evelio Villalba
Date: May 3, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20670
USA v. Paul Suarez
Date: May 3, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40302
USA v. Cesar Garcia-Barajas
Date: May 3, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40564
USA v. Andrew Hidalgo
Date: May 3, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50593
USA v. Aldair Torres-Vazquez
Date: May 3, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50768
USA v. Horace Rutledge, Jr.
Date: May 3, 2019
Docket Number:
18-60680
United States v. Parrales-Guzman
Date: May 2, 2019
Docket Number:
16-20700
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of petitioner's motion to dismiss the indictment against him for illegal reentry after conviction of a felony. Petitioner argued that 8 U.S.C. 1326(d)'s bar on…
USA v. Robert Mitchell, Jr.
Date: May 2, 2019
Docket Number:
17-10745
USA v. Horace Mabrey
Date: May 2, 2019
Docket Number:
17-11222
Reed v. Taylor
Date: May 2, 2019
Docket Number:
17-20519
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, a civilly committed sexually violent predator, had to pay for GPS monitoring or be prosecuted under a now-repealed Texas law. Plaintiff filed suit alleging that the pay-or-be-prosecuted penalty violated the…
USA v. Erick Lozano
Date: May 2, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11275
USA v. Jeffrey Randle
Date: May 2, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20400
USA v. Juan Segura-Olvera
Date: May 2, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40328
USA v. Jimendrick Shedd
Date: May 2, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40690
USA v. Jose Bazan
Date: May 2, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40726
USA v. Jesus Carrillo-Rodriguez
Date: May 2, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40860
USA v. Jesus Katajiri
Date: May 2, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50479
Shakouri v. Davis
Date: May 1, 2019
Docket Number:
17-20738
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of plaintiff's motion to remand and the dismissal of his claims alleging that the individuals associated with the Texas prison system violated his rights under the…
United States v. Vasquez-Puente
Date: May 1, 2019
Docket Number:
17-41099
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed defendant's two special conditions of supervised release: (1) that he surrender to immigration authorities until deported and (2) that he remain outside the United States until authorized to…
USA v. Francisco Guerrero
Date: May 1, 2019
Docket Number:
17-41109
USA v. Frederick Allen
Date: May 1, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10958
USA v. Ikeem Shaw
Date: May 1, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11093
USA v. Erbey Botello
Date: May 1, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20225
USA v. Erbey Botello-Alanis
Date: May 1, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20226
USA v. Clarence Robinson, Jr.
Date: May 1, 2019
Docket Number:
18-30682
Shambria Smith v. Kansa Technology, L.L.C.
Date: May 1, 2019
Docket Number:
18-30900
USA v. Terrance Thornton
Date: May 1, 2019
Docket Number:
18-31097
USA v. Fabian Delgado
Date: May 1, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50674
Gluckstadt Holdings, LLC v. VCR I, LLC
Date: May 1, 2019
Docket Number:
18-60368
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's judgment affirming the bankruptcy court's decision to grant the Chapter 7 trustee's motion to approve auction and for authority to sell certain real property of the…
United States v. Garcia De Nieto
Date: April 30, 2019
Docket Number:
16-51142
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction of conspiracy to defraud the United States, mail fraud, and aiding and abetting aggravated identity theft. The court held that defendant's challenges to the presentencing…
United States v. Rocha Flores
Date: April 30, 2019
Docket Number:
17-20666
Justia Opinion Summary: Texas assault of a public servant is an "aggravated felony" under 8 U.S.C. 1326(b)(2). The court held in United States v. Gracia-Cantu that Texas assault -- family violence was a crime of violence. Because Texas assault…
Ebert v. DeJoria
Date: April 30, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10382
Justia Opinion Summary: LSI's bankruptcy trustee filed suit against several of LSI's corporate officers, directors, and investors for breaches of fiduciary duty. At issue was a contract LSI entered into with Jabil Inc., one of LSI's bankruptcy…
USA v. Juan Ramirez-Rojas
Date: April 30, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10524
USA v. Charles Davis
Date: April 30, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10748
USA v. Mario Vasquez-Caso
Date: April 30, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10978
Steve Gee, Jr. v. State of Texas, et al
Date: April 30, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11186
Jose Garza, et al v. City of Donna
Date: April 30, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40044
United States v. Flores
Date: April 30, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40334
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit vacated defendant's sentence imposed after he pleaded guilty to one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. The court held that aggravated assault under Texas law does not categorically…
United States v. Campos
Date: April 30, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50416
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit appealed the district court's imposition of an eight year supervised release term after defendant violated conditions of his supervised release. The court held that the district court plainly erred when…
USA v. John Cockrell
Date: April 29, 2019
Docket Number:
17-40416
USA v. Demarcus Johnson-Phillips
Date: April 29, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10592
USA v. Gene Medina
Date: April 29, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11165
USA v. Robert Burris
Date: April 29, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11320
Graham v. BP Exploration & Production, Inc.
Date: April 29, 2019
Docket Number:
18-30008
Justia Opinion Summary: More than eight hundred appellants, who assert various contract and tort claims arising out of the Deepwater Horizon oil clean-up, are divided into two groups: the Lindsay Appellants and the D'Amico Appellants. Both…
USA v. John Balla
Date: April 29, 2019
Docket Number:
18-60541
United States v. Baker
Date: April 26, 2019
Docket Number:
17-51034
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit treated the petition for rehearing en banc as a petition for panel rehearing and denied the petition for rehearing en banc. The court substituted the following opinion in place of its prior…
Jason Jones v. Martha Underwood, Warden
Date: April 26, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11405
USA v. Ronny Rhodes
Date: April 26, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20562
Deo Shanker v. United of Omaha Life Ins Co.
Date: April 26, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20616
United States v. Ricard
Date: April 26, 2019
Docket Number:
18-30047
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction for one count of conspiracy to pay and receive kickbacks for referring Medicare patients to a particular health care provider, three counts of receiving such kickbacks…
Seantrey Morris v. Joseph Mekdessie, et al
Date: April 26, 2019
Docket Number:
18-30705
Garza v. City of Donna
Date: April 26, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40044
Justia Opinion Summary: After Jose Luis Garza died by suicide in jail, plaintiff filed a 42 U.S.C. 1983 action alleging violations of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause in the time leading up to, and immediately following, Garza's…
Arenas v. Calhoun
Date: April 26, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50194
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment to a state prison officer in a 42 U.S.C. 1983 action alleging that the officer violated plaintiff's son's Eighth Amendment right against cruel and…
USA v. Carlos Sauzo
Date: April 25, 2019
Docket Number:
17-51114
USA v. Glen Clay
Date: April 25, 2019
Docket Number:
17-60538
USA v. Homero Martinez
Date: April 25, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10777
USA v. Stevie Jones
Date: April 25, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11106
USA v. Adrian Alvarez
Date: April 25, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11249
Light-Age, Inc. v. Ashcroft-Smith
Date: April 25, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20098
Justia Opinion Summary: Light-Age petitioned the district court to vacate an arbitration panel award, arguing that the panel was improperly constituted. The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's judgment, holding that Light-Age waived its…
Charles Lusk v. Carlisietta Warner, et al
Date: April 25, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20552
USA v. Lucy Marquez
Date: April 25, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40854
USA v. Alejandrina Gamez-Flores
Date: April 25, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40929
USA v. Heon Yoo
Date: April 25, 2019
Docket Number:
19-40193
USA v. Severiano Garza, Jr.
Date: April 24, 2019
Docket Number:
16-20807
Doe v. McKesson
Date: April 24, 2019
Docket Number:
17-30864
Justia Opinion Summary: After Officer John Doe was injured during a public protest, he filed suit against Black Lives Matter, the group associated with the protest and Defendant Mckesson, one of the leaders and organizers of the group. The…
David Schmidt v. Michael Roesler
Date: April 24, 2019
Docket Number:
17-41063
United States v. Ganzer
Date: April 24, 2019
Docket Number:
17-51042
Justia Opinion Summary: This case concerns implications of a warrant issued in the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA), which authorized the FBI to use certain malware to identify and prosecute users of a child pornography website known as…
Waller v. Hanlon
Date: April 24, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10561
Justia Opinion Summary: After Jerry Waller was shot and killed by a Fort Worth police officer, plaintiffs filed suit alleging that the officer did not reasonably fear for his safety when he shot Waller. The district court concluded that…
Calvin Horton v. Bobby Jindal, et al
Date: April 24, 2019
Docket Number:
18-30255
Jerry Francis v. James LeBlanc, et al
Date: April 24, 2019
Docket Number:
18-30623
USA v. Alejandra Bustos-Castaneda
Date: April 24, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40570
USA v. Daniel Gonzalez-Perez
Date: April 24, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40807
Billy Melot v. J. Willis
Date: April 24, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50166
Michael Tyler v. Lorie Davis, Director
Date: April 23, 2019
Docket Number:
17-20249
USA v. Antonio Flores
Date: April 23, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10403
USA v. Babar Butt
Date: April 23, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20023
USA v. Ronald Kahn
Date: April 23, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20033
Pate v. Tow
Date: April 23, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20518
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellants asserted claims for child support arrearages against debtor. Although debtor filed for bankruptcy, appellants claimed that they never received notice of debtor's bankruptcy case. Therefore, appellants argued…
USA v. Rodolfo Cantu, Jr.
Date: April 23, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40607
USA v. Benny Regalado
Date: April 23, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50395
Luna-Garcia De Garcia v. Barr
Date: April 22, 2019
Docket Number:
15-60526
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit denied a petition for review of petitioner's reinstated removal order and the BIA's denial of withholding of removal and protection under the Convention Against Torture (CAT). In regard to petitioner's…
