Tenth Circuit US Court of Appeals Case Law
Based in Denver, Colorado, the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit was created in 1929. Previously, its districts were a part of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. The court has appellate jurisdiction over courts in the following districts:
- District of Kansas
- District of New Mexico
- Eastern District of Oklahoma
- Northern District of Oklahoma
- Western District of Oklahoma
- District of Utah
- District of Wyoming
Learn more in detail about the history and the judges who have served on the Tenth Circuit by visiting the Tenth Circuit Historical Society.
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Recent Decisions From the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Date: March 17, 2023
Docket Number: 22-2000
Justia Opinion Summary: After the government charged defendant-appellant Steven O’Neil with violating the federal felon-in-possession statute, he moved to suppress eyewitness identification evidence and a gun seized from his backpack. The…
Date: March 17, 2023
Docket Number: 22-8010
Justia Opinion Summary: After a drug-sniffing dog alerted to Defendant Neoal Hayes’ vehicle during a traffic stop, law enforcement officers uncovered 2,505 grams of methamphetamine and 10 grams of heroin inside a duffel bag located behind the…
Date: March 14, 2023
Docket Number: 21-2151
Justia Opinion Summary: In December 2019, defendant-appellant Steven Anderson was stopped by police after a woman complained he was harassing her and an officer observed him walking in the street in violation of a city ordinance. Anderson…
Date: March 14, 2023
Docket Number: 22-5017
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant Gerardo Jimenez was a habitual violator of immigration law. Between 1995 and the incident under review here, Defendant illegally entered the United States from his native Mexico and been returned there on nine…
Date: March 14, 2023
Docket Number: 22-5018
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2011, defendant-appellant Joshua Slinkard pleaded guilty in Oklahoma state court to child sex abuse, lewd molestation, and possession of child pornography. The state court sentenced him to 30 years in prison. But in…
Date: March 13, 2023
Docket Number: 22-5037
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant-appellant Conner Polk appealed his four-year prison sentence under the Assimilative Crimes Act (ACA), 18 U.S.C. § 13, for committing a state-law offense on an Indian reservation in Oklahoma. Polk argued the…
Date: March 10, 2023
Docket Number: 22-3019
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant-appellant Omar Francisco Orduno-Ramirez pled guilty to a conspiracy drug offense. He received a below-Guidelines-range prison sentence of 144 months, which was affirmed on direct appeal. After he pled guilty,…
Date: March 10, 2023
Docket Number: 22-8002
Justia Opinion Summary: Two Yellowstone Park rangers received an alert that a park employee had spotted Michael Bullinger, a fugitive wanted for allegedly shooting and killing three women in Idaho. The report said Bullinger was leaving the park…
