USA v. David Ramos
Date: October 30, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50102
USA v. Luis Estrada-Ponce
Date: October 30, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50553
USA v. Jose Urias-Marquez
Date: October 30, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50583
USA v. Jose Zubia
Date: October 30, 2019
Docket Number:
18-51046
USA v. Samuel Sales-Majoica
Date: October 30, 2019
Docket Number:
19-10115
USA v. Tymaine Lewis
Date: October 30, 2019
Docket Number:
19-10120
USA v. Mary Mosley
Date: October 30, 2019
Docket Number:
19-20061
Welsh v. Fort Bend Independent School District
Date: October 30, 2019
Docket Number:
19-20239
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment to the school district in an action brought by plaintiff, alleging claims under Title VII and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) for…
USA v. Sergio Bahena
Date: October 30, 2019
Docket Number:
19-20260
USA v. Gerald Wells
Date: October 30, 2019
Docket Number:
19-30115
Jacinta Walker v. Concordia Capital
Date: October 30, 2019
Docket Number:
19-30258
Jing Gao, et al v. Blue Ridge Landfill TX, L.P.
Date: October 30, 2019
Docket Number:
19-40062
USA v. Francisco Araiza-Rodriguez
Date: October 30, 2019
Docket Number:
19-40108
USA v. James Cox
Date: October 30, 2019
Docket Number:
19-50106
USA v. James Griffith
Date: October 30, 2019
Docket Number:
19-50260
USA v. Mario Palacios-Cordero
Date: October 30, 2019
Docket Number:
19-50262
USA v. John Cochran
Date: October 29, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11570
FinServ Casualty Corp. v. Symetra Life Insurance Co.
Date: October 29, 2019
Docket Numbers:
18-20245, 18-20762
Justia Opinion Summary: Symetra appealed a jury verdict in favor of FinServ and A.M.Y. in an action involving structured settlement payments Symetra owed to two individuals. Both payments were subject to security interests held by FinServ and…
USA v. Milton Riascos Tovar
Date: October 29, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20797
USA v. Gary Cain
Date: October 29, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50568
United States v. Diaz
Date: October 29, 2019
Docket Number:
18-60455
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed defendant's convictions and restitution orders for various counts of healthcare fraud, distribution of controlled substances, and obstruction of justice. The court held that the evidence was…
USA v. Tramaine Ruth
Date: October 29, 2019
Docket Number:
19-10395
Rebecca Bellue v. Sid Gautreaux, et al
Date: October 29, 2019
Docket Number:
19-30293
USA v. Eric Perez
Date: October 29, 2019
Docket Number:
19-50049
United States v. Gentry
Date: October 28, 2019
Docket Number:
17-10165
Justia Opinion Summary: Seven defendants appealed their conviction and sentence for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine. Although defendants were not all members of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas,…
USA v. Gregory Ward
Date: October 28, 2019
Docket Number:
17-30243
Canciano Marquez-Mayorga v. J. Willis
Date: October 28, 2019
Docket Number:
18-30848
Anthony Laird v. USA
Date: October 28, 2019
Docket Number:
18-60735
USA v. Carlos Garcia-Diaz
Date: October 28, 2019
Docket Number:
19-10025
USA v. Edilberto Diaz
Date: October 28, 2019
Docket Number:
19-20117
USA v. Tamara Mitchell
Date: October 25, 2019
Docket Number:
17-20490
Doe v. Dallas Independent School District
Date: October 25, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10720
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit reversed the district court's dismissal of plaintiff's Title IX complaint for failure to exhaust administrative remedies under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Plaintiff's claims…
USA v. Angel Norris
Date: October 25, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10786
USA v. Mason Staggs
Date: October 25, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20676
Clarkston v. White
Date: October 25, 2019
Docket Number:
18-31099
Justia Opinion Summary: Kingdom Builders and its CEO filed suit against defendant, the Superintendent of the Louisiana Department of Education, alleging that defendant caused the denial of Kingdom Builders' charter school application in…
USA v. Jose Cruz-Guevarar
Date: October 25, 2019
Docket Number:
18-41026
USA v. Rogelio Villarreal-Estebis
Date: October 25, 2019
Docket Number:
18-41038
United States v. Barfield
Date: October 25, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50399
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed defendant's 360 month sentence for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. The court rejected defendant's contention that the weekly meth transactions to which he confessed should…
Patricia Gill v. DIRTT Env Solutions, Inc.
Date: October 25, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50901
USA v. Jazmin Ramon
Date: October 25, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50975
USA v. Christopher Joseph
Date: October 25, 2019
Docket Number:
19-30369
USA v. Juan Salas-Lerma
Date: October 25, 2019
Docket Number:
19-40177
USA v. Jose Marichalar, Jr.
Date: October 25, 2019
Docket Number:
19-40234
Terry Trentacosta v. Lorie Davis, Director
Date: October 25, 2019
Docket Number:
19-50222
USA v. Thanh Tran
Date: October 24, 2019
Docket Number:
18-31253
USA v. Clarence Robinson, Jr.
Date: October 24, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40678
United States v. Sparks
Date: October 24, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50225
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed his below-Guidelines 35 year sentence for his role in a carjacking with fellow gang members when he was 16 years old. The carjacking resulted in two murders.
The Fifth Circuit held that defendant's…
Stephen Smith v. Dynasty Group, Incorporated
Date: October 24, 2019
Docket Number:
18-60752
USA v. Rodolfo Perez-Jimenez
Date: October 24, 2019
Docket Number:
19-10123
Omar Brown v. Federal Express Corporation
Date: October 24, 2019
Docket Number:
19-10381
USA v. Jeffrey Stern
Date: October 24, 2019
Docket Number:
19-20626
USA v. Rot Nguyen
Date: October 24, 2019
Docket Number:
19-30180
Joe Luna v. Lorie Davis, Director
Date: October 24, 2019
Docket Number:
19-70002
USA v. Clarence Robinson, Jr.
Date: October 23, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40678
USA v. Enrique Echeverria-Benitez
Date: October 23, 2019
Docket Number:
18-41012
USA v. Enrique Echeverria-Benitez
Date: October 23, 2019
Docket Number:
18-41014
Eleanor Keller, et al v. Attala County
Date: October 23, 2019
Docket Number:
18-60081
Charlie Blunt v. Georgia Shelby, Warden, et al
Date: October 23, 2019
Docket Number:
18-60669
Plaintiff v. Defendant
Date: October 23, 2019
Docket Number:
19-10009
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment to the university in an action brought by a student, alleging substantive due process and equal protection claims in connection with the…
USA v. Matthew Austin
Date: October 23, 2019
Docket Number:
19-10333
Richard Cruz v. Scott Willis, Warden
Date: October 23, 2019
Docket Number:
19-30074
USA v. Andres Salas
Date: October 23, 2019
Docket Number:
19-40494
Michael Baker v. TDCJ-CID, et al
Date: October 22, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10127
Jason Van Dyke v. Thomas Retzlaff
Date: October 22, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40710
USA v. Maria Navarrete-De Grubich
Date: October 22, 2019
Docket Number:
18-41117
USA v. Tyrone Johnson
Date: October 22, 2019
Docket Number:
19-10023
USA v. John Green
Date: October 22, 2019
Docket Number:
19-10055
USA v. Gerardo Sanchez-Miranda
Date: October 22, 2019
Docket Number:
19-10133
USA v. Jesse Guzman
Date: October 22, 2019
Docket Number:
19-10580
Jerri Jones v. Artists Rights Enforcement
Date: October 22, 2019
Docket Number:
19-30374
In Re: Julius Murphy
Date: October 22, 2019
Docket Number:
19-40741
In Re: Julius Murphy
Date: October 22, 2019
Docket Number:
19-40755
USA v. Victor Mora-Galindo
Date: October 22, 2019
Docket Number:
19-50517
USA v. Victor Mora-Galindo
Date: October 22, 2019
Docket Number:
19-50527
Eunice Winzer, et al v. Kaufman County, et al
Date: October 21, 2019
Docket Number:
16-11482
USA v. Heriberto Latigo
Date: October 21, 2019
Docket Number:
17-20700
Mojtaba Bonakdar v. Ruby Ramos
Date: October 21, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10663
John Stancu v. Hyatt Corp./Hyatt Regency
Date: October 21, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11279
Crocker v. Navient Solutions, LLC
Date: October 21, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20254
Justia Opinion Summary: A bankruptcy court does not have authority to enforce the discharge injunctions entered in other districts. Plaintiffs sought to certify a nationwide class of those who claim their education-loan debts were validly…
Russell v. Russell
Date: October 21, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20643
Justia Opinion Summary: Ex-wife filed suit against her ex-husband, a Chapter 7 debtor, in bankruptcy court over a debt of $32,500 plus interest. The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's decision reversing the bankruptcy court's ruling in…
Henry v. Educational Financial Service
Date: October 21, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20809
Justia Opinion Summary: Debtor filed an adversary proceeding in bankruptcy court raising the issue of whether her bankruptcy discharge applied to a student loan. The Fifth Circuit affirmed the bankruptcy court's denial of Wells Fargo's motion…
USA v. Francisco Cardenas-Gonzalez
Date: October 21, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40801
USA v. Athena Byrd
Date: October 21, 2019
Docket Number:
18-60740
Tan Phan v. Minh Truong, et al
Date: October 21, 2019
Docket Number:
19-20419
USA v. Angelica Ayala
Date: October 21, 2019
Docket Number:
19-40149
USA v. Jose Navarette-Cardenas
Date: October 21, 2019
Docket Number:
19-50271
USA v. Desmond Bowen
Date: October 21, 2019
Docket Number:
19-60218
United States v. Herrold
Date: October 18, 2019
Docket Number:
14-11317
Justia Opinion Summary: On remand from the Supreme Court, the Fifth Circuit held that the Texas burglary statute, Penal Code 30.02(a)(3), is generic. Therefore, defendant's three prior felonies were qualifying predicates for a sentence…
USA v. Francisco Pena, Jr.
Date: October 18, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11329
Cenac v. Orkin, LLC
Date: October 18, 2019
Docket Number:
18-31121
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs appealed the district court's grant of summary judgment to Orkin and dismissal of their numerous claims under Louisiana law. Plaintiffs had contracted with Orkin to protect their property from termites, but…
USA v. Jason Bennett
Date: October 18, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50991
In re: Rebekah Gee
Date: October 18, 2019
Docket Number:
19-30353
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs, an abortion clinic and two of its doctors, brought a cumulative-effects challenge to Louisiana's laws regulating abortion, arguing that the provisions taken as a whole were unconstitutional, even if the…
JCB, Inc. v. The Horsburgh & Scott Co.
Date: October 17, 2019
Docket Number:
17-51023
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court of Texas answered two certified questions, holding that the time for determining the existence and amount of unpaid commission due under Tex. Bus. & Com. Code section 54.001(1) is the time the jury or…
USA v. Walter Viera
Date: October 17, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10707
USA v. Kinney Palmer
Date: October 17, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11250
USA v. Eduardo Martinez-Paz
Date: October 17, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11263
USA v. Brian King, Jr.
Date: October 17, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11468
USA v. Lavorice Cunningham
Date: October 17, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11621
USA v. Cicily Loya
Date: October 17, 2019
Docket Number:
19-10207
USA v. Kendell Jackson
Date: October 17, 2019
Docket Number:
19-10211
USA v. Aaron Taylor
Date: October 17, 2019
Docket Number:
19-10283
USA v. Wilfredo Garsilla
Date: October 17, 2019
Docket Number:
19-20339
USA v. Jarred Massey
Date: October 17, 2019
Docket Number:
19-40059
Anderson Jones v. Elena Perez
Date: October 16, 2019
Docket Number:
17-11242
Webb v. Davis
Date: October 16, 2019
Docket Number:
17-51143
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner was granted a certificate of appealability (COA) to address whether the district court abused its discretion in failing to grant relief to petitioner on his claims for denial of the right to a speedy trial, on…
USA v. Deandre Santee
Date: October 16, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20618
USA v. Vernon Hinkle, III
Date: October 16, 2019
Docket Number:
18-31282
Martin Nitschke v. Andrew Saul, Commissioner
Date: October 16, 2019
Docket Number:
19-20217
USA v. Eric Wicker
Date: October 16, 2019
Docket Number:
19-30149
USA v. Jaime Trejo-Lopez
Date: October 16, 2019
Docket Number:
19-40169
Augustine Ikolo v. Kevin McAleenan, Acting Secy
Date: October 16, 2019
Docket Number:
19-60343
USA v. Misael Ramirez
Date: October 15, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20667
Heyman Guillory v. Rodney Conerly, et al
Date: October 15, 2019
Docket Number:
19-40061
USA v. Drew Luna
Date: October 15, 2019
Docket Number:
19-50031
USA v. Edwin Erazo Villatoro
Date: October 14, 2019
Docket Number:
17-20760
Brandon LaVergne v. N. Burl Cain, et al
Date: October 14, 2019
Docket Number:
18-31101
USA v. Mauro Gonzales
Date: October 14, 2019
Docket Number:
18-51076
Nicolas Padron v. USA
Date: October 14, 2019
Docket Number:
19-10154
USA v. Jerry Cardenas
Date: October 14, 2019
Docket Number:
19-10194
USA v. John Jasso
Date: October 14, 2019
Docket Number:
19-10252
USA v. Mario Trevino-Meraz
Date: October 14, 2019
Docket Number:
19-40128
USA v. Eugenio Montoya-Carrillo
Date: October 14, 2019
Docket Number:
19-40140
USA v. Louis Juares-Perez
Date: October 14, 2019
Docket Number:
19-40219
USA v. Tom Emasealu
Date: October 11, 2019
Docket Number:
17-20387
USA v. Jamal Collins
Date: October 11, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11280
Pedro Umana v. Lorie Davis, Director
Date: October 11, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20127
Michael Pinedo v. TDCJ
Date: October 11, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50902
USA v. Javier Chaparro-Luna
Date: October 11, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50941
USA v. Alains Ruiz
Date: October 11, 2019
Docket Number:
19-40267
A. B. v. Clear Creek Indep Sch Dist
Date: October 10, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20714
United States v. Dean
Date: October 10, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50509
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed a special search condition of supervised release, holding that the record supported the condition and there was no clear error adversely impacting defendant's substantial rights. In this case,…
Sammons v. Economou
Date: October 10, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50932
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit dismissed plaintiff's appeal of two district court orders based on lack of jurisdiction. The first order requires that plaintiff pay costs under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(d), and the second…
USA v. Brenda Alvarez
Date: October 10, 2019
Docket Number:
19-10188
USA v. Vincent Humphrey
Date: October 10, 2019
Docket Number:
19-10448
Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Apache Corporation
Date: October 10, 2019
Docket Number:
19-50636
Robert Thompson v. T Crnkovich, et al
Date: October 9, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11438
Jeremy Walker v. Ameriprise Fincl Svc Inc.
Date: October 9, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11641
Francisco Perez v. State of Texas, et al
Date: October 9, 2019
Docket Number:
18-41039
United States v. Valencia
Date: October 9, 2019
Docket Number:
18-51008
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit dismissed defendant's appeal of the denial of his motion to dismiss the indictment. In this case, defendant cited the illegality of Mathew Whitaker's designation as Acting Attorney General as the basis…
Gloria Penn v. Mary Viegelahn
Date: October 9, 2019
Docket Number:
18-51055
USA v. Heath Brewer
Date: October 9, 2019
Docket Number:
19-10069
USA v. Rogelio Quiroz-Moreira
Date: October 9, 2019
Docket Number:
19-40313
USA v. Tamaris Weaver, Jr.
Date: October 9, 2019
Docket Number:
19-50181
USA v. Francisco Guerrero-Saucedo
Date: October 8, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11626
USA v. Kinte Johnson
Date: October 8, 2019
Docket Number:
19-10572
USA v. Carlos Hernandez-Sanchez
Date: October 8, 2019
Docket Number:
19-20054
Gay Story v. Our Lady of the Lake Physn Grp
Date: October 8, 2019
Docket Number:
19-30121
USA v. Jesus Garcia-Andrade
Date: October 8, 2019
Docket Number:
19-40391
USA v. Alejandro Espinoza-Hernandez
Date: October 8, 2019
Docket Number:
19-50480
Plaintiff v. Defendant
Date: October 7, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10302
USA v. Sergio Ramirez Garcia
Date: October 7, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11317
USA v. Ruben Isaac
Date: October 7, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11501
Justin Johnson v. Brad Livingston, et al
Date: October 7, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20418
Danny Pereda v. Calvin Johnson, Warden
Date: October 7, 2019
Docket Number:
18-31222
USA v. Albino Ramirez-Marquez
Date: October 7, 2019
Docket Number:
18-51069
Jeffrey Rainey v. Citigroup, Incorporated
Date: October 7, 2019
Docket Number:
19-10036
USA v. Fernando Ramirez-Garcia
Date: October 7, 2019
Docket Number:
19-20020
Andrew Gressett v. New Orleans City, et al
Date: October 7, 2019
Docket Number:
19-30177
USA v. Demetrice Hodges
Date: October 7, 2019
Docket Number:
19-40083
Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Apache Corporation
Date: October 7, 2019
Docket Number:
19-50636
USA v. Adan Reyes-Martinez
Date: October 7, 2019
Docket Number:
19-60156
USA v. Quenshey Mitchell
Date: October 4, 2019
Docket Number:
17-30958
United States v. Smith
Date: October 4, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11155
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed defendant's sentence for being a felon in possession of a firearm. The court held that the district court did not err by increasing defendant's criminal history level based on his prior state…
USA v. Hector Chavez-Luna
Date: October 4, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11536
USA v. Michael Vester
Date: October 4, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11634
USA v. Selena Flores
Date: October 4, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50229
USA v. Casey Jones
Date: October 4, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50401
USA v. Daniel Guerrero
Date: October 4, 2019
Docket Number:
19-10108
Issaiah Hayes v. Scott Willis, Warden
Date: October 4, 2019
Docket Number:
19-30127
USA v. Jaime Morin-Garcia
Date: October 4, 2019
Docket Number:
19-40218
USA v. Marcus Green
Date: October 4, 2019
Docket Number:
19-50122
USA v. Cirilo Lopez
Date: October 3, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11496
Sierra Club v. EPA
Date: October 3, 2019
Docket Number:
18-60116
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioners challenged EPA's 2017 Final Rule approving Louisiana's state implementation plan (SIP) for controlling regional haze. Environmental Petitioners contend that Louisiana's SIP does too little to curb regional…
USA v. Hector Camacho-Diaz
Date: October 3, 2019
Docket Number:
19-20110
Sherman Oby v. Corey Sander
Date: October 2, 2019
Docket Number:
17-60177
USA v. Fredrick Johnson
Date: October 2, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10369
McMillen v. New Caney Independent School District
Date: October 2, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20420
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff and his parents filed suit against the school district, seeking damages under the Rehabilitation Act and 42 U.S.C. 1983 after plaintiff was expelled from high school. The Fifth Circuit explained that, because…
USA v. Jose Hernandez-Cuellar
Date: October 2, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40022
USA v. Juan Zuniga-Medrano
Date: October 2, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40921
USA v. Manuel Rodas
Date: October 2, 2019
Docket Number:
18-60894
Stephanie Jones v. Jeremy Eder, et al
Date: October 2, 2019
Docket Number:
19-20223
USA v. Jeffrey Morrow
Date: October 2, 2019
Docket Number:
19-50112
Sherman Oby v. Corey Sander
Date: October 1, 2019
Docket Number:
17-60177
USA v. The M/Y Galactica Star, et al
Date: October 1, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20781
Morrison v. Walker
Date: October 1, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40846
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed the 28 U.S.C. 1927 sanctions imposed against attorney John Morgan for advancing a meritless, immunity-barred claim against Judge Layne Walker. Morgan represented an attorney in an action…
Victor Canales v. H. Ayala, et al
Date: October 1, 2019
Docket Number:
18-41041
USA v. Manuel Suarez-Vega
Date: October 1, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50316
USA v. Armando Alvarado, Jr.
Date: October 1, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50859
USA v. Ronnie Pruett-Farmer
Date: October 1, 2019
Docket Number:
18-51060
Jason Freeman v. Securian Life Insurance Co.
Date: October 1, 2019
Docket Number:
18-51078
USA v. Christopher Harris
Date: October 1, 2019
Docket Number:
19-10052
USA v. David Reyna-Salinas
Date: October 1, 2019
Docket Number:
19-40176
USA v. Octavio Ortega-Morales
Date: October 1, 2019
Docket Number:
19-40188
USA v. Antonyo Reece
Date: September 30, 2019
Docket Number:
17-11078
Georges Payano v. Env, Sfty & Hlth Conslt Svc
Date: September 30, 2019
Docket Number:
18-31144
USA v. Victor Molinero Puente
Date: September 30, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40935
USA v. Efren Reyes-Rodriguez
Date: September 30, 2019
Docket Number:
19-40151
USA v. John Lavergne
Date: September 27, 2019
Docket Number:
17-20629
Gary Epple v. BNSF Railway Company
Date: September 27, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10509
USA v. Daniel Vasquez-Delgado
Date: September 27, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40803
Dwight Bacon v. Benjamin Zeringue
Date: September 27, 2019
Docket Number:
19-30076
USA v. Marcus Williams
Date: September 27, 2019
Docket Number:
19-40030
USA v. Francisco Gonzalez-Ulises
Date: September 27, 2019
Docket Number:
19-40060
USA v. Eduardo Villanova-Anaya
Date: September 27, 2019
Docket Number:
19-40063
USA v. Liliana Rosas
Date: September 27, 2019
Docket Number:
19-40084
USA v. Sandra Contreras-Torres
Date: September 27, 2019
Docket Number:
19-50393
Maxwell Simmons v. Pacific Bells, L.L.C.
Date: September 27, 2019
Docket Number:
19-60001
USA v. Eddie Galindo-Mendez
Date: September 26, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11516
USA v. Eddie Contreraz
Date: September 26, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11631
Jarrod Flaming v. Alvin Community College
Date: September 26, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20698
Dennis Davis, Jr. v. Caddo Parish, et al
Date: September 26, 2019
Docket Number:
18-31072
USA v. Frank Neal
Date: September 26, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50744
USA v. Miguel Vazquez-Chavarria
Date: September 26, 2019
Docket Number:
19-10060
USA v. John Ehrman
Date: September 26, 2019
Docket Number:
19-20065
Joseph Chhim v. City of Houston, et al
Date: September 26, 2019
Docket Number:
19-20153
Eagle Water, L.L.C. v. Arch Insurance Company, et
Date: September 26, 2019
Docket Number:
19-30056
USA v. Angela Lee
Date: September 26, 2019
Docket Number:
19-60081
USA v. Anselmo Solano-Cruz
Date: September 25, 2019
Docket Number:
15-41686
Geary Mills v. USA
Date: September 25, 2019
Docket Number:
17-10469
USA v. Michael Thomas
Date: September 25, 2019
Docket Number:
18-41040
Geoffrey Sansom v. Evvajean Mintz, et al
Date: September 25, 2019
Docket Number:
19-10066
USA v. Julio Pacheco-Astrudillo
Date: September 25, 2019
Docket Number:
19-10117
USA v. Ladarrius Street
Date: September 25, 2019
Docket Number:
19-30050
USA v. Marcos Cortez-Rogel
Date: September 24, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11436
Robert Carreno, Jr. v. Calvin Johnson
Date: September 24, 2019
Docket Number:
18-31197
Duglas Ramos-Enriquez v. William Barr, U. S. Atty
Date: September 24, 2019
Docket Number:
18-60580
Ronnell Vallery v. Calvin Johnson
Date: September 23, 2019
Docket Number:
18-31168
USA v. Jon Johnson
Date: September 23, 2019
Docket Number:
18-51027
In Re: Randy Halprin
Date: September 23, 2019
Docket Number:
19-10960
In Re: Randy Halprin
Date: September 23, 2019
Docket Number:
19-10970
Joseph Kiggundu v. Bank of New York Mellon, et al
Date: September 23, 2019
Docket Number:
19-20215
Joseph Thomas, et al v. Phil Bryant, et al
Date: September 23, 2019
Docket Number:
19-60133
Randy Halprin v. Lorie Davis, Director
Date: September 23, 2019
Docket Number:
19-70016
Randy Halprin v. Lorie Davis, Director
Date: September 23, 2019
Docket Number:
19-70017
Paul Gregory v. Baucum
Date: September 20, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10291
Weaver v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.
Date: September 20, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10517
Justia Opinion Summary: This contract-interpretation case arose when Diane Weaver's then-husband Larry Hickey suffered a diving incident and the couple received a structured settlement. Years after the couple divorced, Larry passed away. At…
Avi Adelman v. Dallas Area Rapid Transit
Date: September 20, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11103
USA v. Melissa Castillo
Date: September 20, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11465
USA v. Gary Beach
Date: September 20, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11619
USA v. Mario Aguirre-Sarinana
Date: September 20, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20725
Cynthia Mary, et al v. QEP Energy Company
Date: September 20, 2019
Docket Number:
18-31107
USA v. Ramiro Ramirez, Jr.
Date: September 20, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50503
USA v. Darmarcus Fisher
Date: September 20, 2019
Docket Number:
18-60657
Timothy Greene v. Maureen Underwood
Date: September 20, 2019
Docket Number:
19-10474
USA v. John Brownlee
Date: September 19, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10579
USA v. Juan Romo Vera
Date: September 19, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20727
USA v. Eddie Green, Jr.
Date: September 19, 2019
Docket Number:
18-41047
USA v. Bazavious Rivers
Date: September 19, 2019
Docket Number:
19-10086
USA v. Robert Kinsey
Date: September 19, 2019
Docket Number:
19-10109
Harvey Clark v. Thibodaux City, et al
Date: September 19, 2019
Docket Number:
19-30113
USA v. Ruben Mendez
Date: September 19, 2019
Docket Number:
19-50120
Walker v. Beaumont Independent School District
Date: September 18, 2019
Docket Number:
17-40752
Justia Opinion Summary: In the Fourth Amended Complaint (FAC), plaintiffs alleged that they are the victims of an extensive, long-lasting conspiracy designed to prevent African-American individuals in Beaumont from gaining power and influence…
Wendi Hayward v. Jody Upton
Date: September 18, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11392
USA v. Nathan Storm
Date: September 18, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11458
Ronnie Hongo v. Jerry Goodwin, et al
Date: September 18, 2019
Docket Number:
18-30717
USA v. Manuel Gama-Peralta
Date: September 18, 2019
Docket Number:
18-30851
USA v. Jason Cooper
Date: September 18, 2019
Docket Number:
18-60798
USA v. Viraj Patel
Date: September 17, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20530
USA v. Frank Pearson
Date: September 17, 2019
Docket Number:
18-31279
Leon Vessell v. Bryan Collier
Date: September 17, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40576
Calvin Cash v. John Rupert, et al
Date: September 17, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40673
Mauro Padilla, III v. USA
Date: September 17, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50410
Abdul Issifi v. William Barr, U. S. Atty Gen
Date: September 17, 2019
Docket Number:
18-60533
Ramiro Gonzales v. Lorie Davis, Director
Date: September 17, 2019
Docket Number:
18-70024
USA v. Jimi Valdez
Date: September 17, 2019
Docket Number:
19-10074
USA v. Zasha Ayala
Date: September 17, 2019
Docket Number:
19-50152
Inmar Rx Solutions, Inc., et al v. Devos, Limited
Date: September 16, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11443
Spring Branch Independent School District v. O.W.
Date: September 16, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20274
Justia Opinion Summary: After O.W. was withdrawn from school, the administrative hearing officer found that the school district violated the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and awarded O.W. two years of private school…
United States v. Khan
Date: September 16, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20519
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit vacated the district court's sentence after defendant pleaded guilty to providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization. The court held that the district court committed…
United States v. James
Date: September 16, 2019
Docket Number:
19-30049
Justia Opinion Summary: The burden of proof for the four factor test that prosecutors must satisfy before a court may compel the medication of the accused in Sell v. United States, 539 U.S. 166 (2003), is by clear and convincing evidence, not…
Joseph Dickey v. C. Nash
Date: September 16, 2019
Docket Number:
19-60197
Adekeye v. Davis
Date: September 13, 2019
Docket Number:
17-20040
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of habeas relief to petitioner, who was convicted of attempted aggravated robbery and being a felon in possession of a firearm. The court rejected petitioner's claim…
United States v. Ainabe
Date: September 13, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20689
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed defendant's sentence for several health-care-related offenses in connection with recruiting and transporting individuals to Texas Tender Care (TTC) for treatment. The court held that the…
Cleveland v. Bell
Date: September 13, 2019
Docket Number:
18-30968
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs filed a 42 U.S.C. 1983 action against a prison nurse, alleging that she violated Paul Cleveland's Fourteenth Amendment rights. The Fifth Circuit reversed the district court's denial of summary judgment and…
USA v. Jose Acevedo-Tolentino
Date: September 13, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40656
USA v. Albert Diaz
Date: September 13, 2019
Docket Number:
18-60455
Ana Rodriguez-Perdomo v. William Barr, U. S. Atty
Date: September 13, 2019
Docket Number:
18-60555
USA v. Francisco Araiza-Rodriguez
Date: September 13, 2019
Docket Number:
19-40109
Baker Hughes Process & Pipeline Services, LLC v. UE Compression, LLC
Date: September 12, 2019
Docket Number:
17-20709
Justia Opinion Summary: Baker Hughes filed suit against UE for breach of contract and express and implied warranties after a containerized air booster compressor manufactured by UE ruptured and injured a Baker Hughes contractor. The express…
USA v. Ronee Williams
Date: September 12, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10176
Elijah Wallace v. The Texas Bd of Pardon & Par
Date: September 12, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20815
USA v. Yudeluis Jimenez-Elvirez
Date: September 12, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40941
USA v. Enrique Huerta, Jr.
Date: September 12, 2019
Docket Number:
18-41021
Padilla v. Bar
Date: September 12, 2019
Docket Number:
18-60509
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit held that petitioner's prior Texas conviction for possession of methamphetamine with intent to deliver was a violation of a state law "relating to a controlled substance" as defined in the Controlled…
USA v. Rickie King
Date: September 12, 2019
Docket Number:
19-10026
Kenyon Garrett v. USA
Date: September 12, 2019
Docket Number:
19-30150
Phillis Cone v. DG Louisiana, L.L.C.
Date: September 12, 2019
Docket Number:
19-30256
USA v. Joel Rosales-Diaz
Date: September 12, 2019
Docket Number:
19-40093
USA v. Alvaro Guevara-Nino
Date: September 11, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10946
USA v. Timothy Sawyer
Date: September 11, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11588
USA v. Margarito Olvera-Martinez
Date: September 11, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40338
Dialysis Newco, Inc. v. Community Health Systems Group Health Plan
Date: September 11, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40863
Justia Opinion Summary: In this Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) contract dispute, the district court determined that the provider had standing to bring this lawsuit because an anti-assignment provision in the plan was ambiguous…
Sealed Appellee v. Sealed Appellant
Date: September 11, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50115
Garcia v. Professional Contract Services, Inc.
Date: September 11, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50144
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against his former employer for retaliation under the False Claims Act. The Fifth Circuit reversed the district court's grant of summary judgment to the employer and held that plaintiff demonstrated…
Mays v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs
Date: September 11, 2019
Docket Number:
18-60004
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed the denial of petitioner's motion for modification of his Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act benefits. Petitioner's appeal stemmed from the injury he sustained from a contracted…
Montalto v. Mississippi Department of Corrections
Date: September 11, 2019
Docket Number:
18-60274
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner filed a 28 U.S.C. 2254 petition for habeas relief seeking reinstatement of his earned-release supervision (ERS) and trusty time. The district court dismissed the petition for failure to exhaust state remedies…
Eric Belanger v. CIR
Date: September 11, 2019
Docket Number:
19-60145
USA v. Charles Campbell
Date: September 10, 2019
Docket Number:
17-50383
USA v. Javier Capote-Cauz
Date: September 10, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10719
Klocke v. University of Texas at Arlington
Date: September 10, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10857
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment to UTA in an appeal arising out of a Title IX suit for damages alleging that UTA discriminated on the basis of sex in disciplining Thomas Klocke.…
USA v. Rogelio Sanchez, Jr.
Date: September 10, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11589
USA v. Mauricio Aguirre
Date: September 10, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11611
Lee Lucas v. Jerry Goodwin, et al
Date: September 10, 2019
Docket Number:
18-30407
USA v. Richard Smith
Date: September 10, 2019
Docket Number:
18-31235
United States v. Torres-Magana
Date: September 10, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50056
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed defendant's sentence imposed after he pleaded guilty of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine. The court held that the district court did not clearly…
USA v. Arturo Dominguez, Jr.
Date: September 10, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50919
Gonzales-Veliz v. Barr
Date: September 10, 2019
Docket Number:
18-60174
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit denied a petition for review of the the BIA's decision denying petitioner's motion for reconsideration after she was denied asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against…
Valerie Harris v. Noxubee County, Mississippi, et
Date: September 10, 2019
Docket Number:
18-60744
USA v. Arnoldo Lepez
Date: September 10, 2019
Docket Number:
19-10119
USA v. Bernardino Meraz-Mejia
Date: September 10, 2019
Docket Number:
19-40098
USA v. Robert Carreno, Jr.
Date: September 10, 2019
Docket Number:
19-50038
USA v. Fidel Martinez-Arroyo
Date: September 10, 2019
Docket Number:
19-50126
United States v. Reece
Date: September 9, 2019
Docket Number:
17-11078
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner appealed the district court's denial of his federal habeas corpus petition seeking vacatur of his three conspiracy-predicated 18 U.S.C. 924(c) convictions on the ground that Johnson v. United States, 135 S.…
Eric Cruz v. Domingo Cervantez
Date: September 9, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10255
State Farm Lloyds v. Janet Richards, et al
Date: September 9, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10721
USA v. Datanya Alexander
Date: September 9, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11239
USA v. Ivan Valdespino
Date: September 9, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11396
USA v. McKinley Griffin, III
Date: September 9, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20415
Jason v. Tanner
Date: September 9, 2019
Docket Number:
18-30837
Justia Opinion Summary: After plaintiff was struck by a fellow inmate on the back of the head with a yard tool that the prison issued to inmates, he filed a 42 U.S.C. 1983 action, alleging claims of deliberate indifference and failure to train…
In Re: Mark Soliz
Date: September 9, 2019
Docket Number:
19-10979
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit held that 28 U.S.C. 2244(b) barred movant's successive application, and thus denied his motion for authorization to file a successive application for a writ of habeas corpus and to stay execution. The…
Collilns v. Mnuchin
Date: September 6, 2019
Docket Number:
17-20364
Justia Opinion Summary: Shareholders filed suit against the Agencies after the FHFA placed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in conservatorship. In 2012, FHFA and Treasury adopted a Third Amendment to their financing agreements wherein Fannie and…
USA v. Oscar Segura-Romero
Date: September 6, 2019
Docket Number:
17-20561
USA v. Bobbie London, Jr.
Date: September 6, 2019
Docket Number:
17-30675
Jose Cruz, et al v. William Barr, U. S. Atty Gen
Date: September 6, 2019
Docket Number:
17-60510
USA v. Lonnie Brantley
Date: September 6, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10655
USA v. April Torres
Date: September 6, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11244
USA v. Lonnie Brantley
Date: September 6, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11552
USA v. Dominic Howard
Date: September 6, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50783
Lefoldt v. Rentfro
Date: September 6, 2019
Docket Number:
18-60581
Justia Opinion Summary: Mississippi requires that a public board speak and act only through its minutes, and Mississippi courts will not give legal effect to a contract with a public board unless the board's approval of the contract is…
USA v. Larry Haywood
Date: September 6, 2019
Docket Number:
19-10179
USA v. Jesus Ortiz-Martinez
Date: September 6, 2019
Docket Number:
19-40107
USA v. Hector Balderrama-Castro
Date: September 6, 2019
Docket Number:
19-50087
USA v. Adam Resendez
Date: September 6, 2019
Docket Number:
19-50088
USA v. Zackary Thompson
Date: September 5, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11444
USA v. Destiney Hamilton
Date: September 5, 2019
Docket Number:
18-31255
USA v. Antonio Escobar
Date: September 5, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40717
USA v. Hugo Montes
Date: September 5, 2019
Docket Number:
18-51057
USA v. Vanessa Villa
Date: September 5, 2019
Docket Number:
19-10144
USA v. Roman Pineda
Date: September 5, 2019
Docket Number:
19-20014
USA v. Anthony Larue
Date: September 5, 2019
Docket Number:
19-50052
USA v. Anthony Larue
Date: September 5, 2019
Docket Number:
19-50054
USA v. David Liddell
Date: September 4, 2019
Docket Number:
17-60361
USA v. Ricky Lovely
Date: September 4, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11176
USA v. Joe Rosales
Date: September 4, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11302
Jesus Maravilla v. Gruma Corporation
Date: September 4, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20570
USA v. Francisco Castillo Morales
Date: September 4, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20788
USA v. Kenneth Reado
Date: September 4, 2019
Docket Number:
18-30922
Carlos Mandujano v. City of Pharr, Texas
Date: September 4, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40561
Douglas McGuffey v. David Blackwell, et al
Date: September 4, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50148
USA v. Armando Salazar-Porras
Date: September 4, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50548
USA v. Shelly Mixon
Date: September 4, 2019
Docket Number:
18-51042
Virgil Jarvis v. David Allison, et al
Date: September 4, 2019
Docket Number:
18-60718
Conn Appliances, Inc. v. Williams
Date: September 4, 2019
Docket Number:
19-20139
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's dismissal of an action, seeking to compel compliance with the terms of the parties' retail installment contract, based on lack of personal jurisdiction. The court held that…
USA v. Nestor Gonzalez-Quintanilla
Date: September 4, 2019
Docket Number:
19-40036
USA v. Julio Maldonado-Gonzalez
Date: September 4, 2019
Docket Number:
19-40102
USA v. Eli Mungia
Date: September 3, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11354
USA v. Bruce Turner
Date: September 3, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11550
USA v. Gabriela Morales
Date: September 3, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11604
French v. Linn Energy, LLC
Date: September 3, 2019
Docket Numbers:
18-40369, 18-40731
Justia Opinion Summary: Payments owed to a shareholder by a bankrupt debtor, which are not quite dividends but which certainly look a lot like dividends, should be treated like the equity interests of a shareholder and subordinated to claims by…
Bruce Bickel v. Linn Energy, L.L.C., et al
Date: September 3, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40731
Thomas v. Bryant
Date: September 3, 2019
Docket Number:
19-60133
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs filed suit challenging the legislative boundaries for Mississippi State Senate District 22, arguing that the district, as drawn in 2012, diluted African-American voting strength. After determining that it had…
United States v. Pervis
Date: August 30, 2019
Docket Number:
17-20689
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendants appealed their sentences for bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. 2113(a) and carrying firearms during the offenses under 18 U.S.C. 924(c). The Fifth Circuit affirmed and held that section 2113(a) is a crime of…
USA v. Juan Gomez-Moreno
Date: August 30, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11598
United States v. Kalu
Date: August 30, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20399
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed defendant's sentence for conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud. The court held that the district court did not err by applying a sentencing enhancement under USSG 2B1.1(b)(11)(C)(i) because…
USA v. Bhavdip Sanghavi
Date: August 30, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20632
USA v. David Rodriguez, Sr.
Date: August 30, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40965
USA v. Rocky Hernandez
Date: August 30, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50976
Center for Biological Diversity v. EPA
Date: August 30, 2019
Docket Number:
18-60102
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit dismissed a petition for review of the EPA's issuance of a general permit for various oil and gas operations to discharge pollutants in federal waters in parts of the Gulf of Mexico. The court held that…
USA v. Andrew Pugh
Date: August 30, 2019
Docket Number:
19-10136
Ruben Benitez v. Jeffrey Atkins
Date: August 30, 2019
Docket Number:
19-60113
Wayne Klocke v. University of TX at Arlington
Date: August 29, 2019
Docket Number:
17-11320
United States v. London
Date: August 29, 2019
Docket Number:
17-30675
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed the district court's order denying his 28 U.S.C. 2255 motion to correct his 1996 sentence for various drug offenses. Defendant argued that the residual clause of the pre-Booker Sentencing Guideline's…
USA v. Timothy Benz
Date: August 29, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11423
Romero v. Brown
Date: August 29, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20157
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs filed suit alleging violations of their due process rights after a social worker and other officials seized all seven of their children and put them in foster homes. The Fifth Circuit held that the complaint…
USA v. Eugene Williams, Jr.
Date: August 29, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20800
USA v. Quinn Reed
Date: August 29, 2019
Docket Number:
18-30366
Caliste v. Cantrell
Date: August 29, 2019
Docket Number:
18-30954
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit held that the magistrate judge's dual role—generator and administrator of court fees—creates a conflict of interest when the judge sets an arrestee's bail, and therefore violates due process. Like the…
Jesse Herrera v. Brian Smith, et al
Date: August 29, 2019
Docket Number:
18-41164
Mason James v. Billy Lewis, et al
Date: August 29, 2019
Docket Number:
18-41169
USA v. Carlos Pedroza-Rocha
Date: August 29, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50828
USA v. Brandon Perez
Date: August 29, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50972
USA v. Santos Alonso-Martinez
Date: August 29, 2019
Docket Number:
19-50094
Mandel Williams v. DOWCP, et al
Date: August 29, 2019
Docket Number:
19-60168
Sanchez v. Davis
Date: August 28, 2019
Docket Number:
17-10652
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of habeas relief to petitioner, who was convicted of murder. Petitioner claimed that his Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated…
Broyles v. Commonwealth Advisors, Inc.
Date: August 28, 2019
Docket Number:
17-30092
Justia Opinion Summary: Investor plaintiffs filed suit alleging securities fraud under Louisiana law against their former investment adviser and its CEO for fraudulently inducing them to purchase falsely inflated hedge fund securities. The…
Flores-Abarca v. Barr
Date: August 28, 2019
Docket Number:
17-60236
Justia Opinion Summary: Upon sua sponte rehearing, the Fifth Circuit withdrew its prior opinion and substituted the following opinion.
The court granted the petition for review and held that petitioner failed to exhaust his challenge to the…
USA v. Rodney Mitchell
Date: August 28, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10047
Wilson v. City of Southlake
Date: August 28, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10342
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs appealed the district court's grant of defendants' motion to dismiss or alternatively for summary judgment regarding plaintiffs' disability-related claims under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 or…
USA v. Fernando Silverio-Paniagua
Date: August 28, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11005
USA v. Kenneth Tanniehill
Date: August 28, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11194
USA v. Valentin Castanon-Renteria
Date: August 28, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11322
USA v. Christopher Blanton
Date: August 28, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11440
USA v. Christopher Blanton
Date: August 28, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11442
Jones v. United States
Date: August 28, 2019
Docket Number:
18-30776
Justia Opinion Summary: After plaintiff was injured on the deck of a ship, he filed suit against the United States, the ship's owner, for negligence under the Jones Act and unseaworthiness under general maritime law. The Fifth Circuit affirmed…
Donald Herod v. UTMB, et al
Date: August 28, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40827
USA v. James Bennett
Date: August 28, 2019
Docket Number:
18-41086
USA v. Damian Garcia
Date: August 28, 2019
Docket Number:
18-41190
League of United Latin American Citizens v. City of San Marcos
Date: August 28, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50655
Justia Opinion Summary: LULAC filed suit against the Edwards Aquifer Authority, alleging that the Authority's electoral scheme violated the "one person, one vote" principle of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Fifth…
USA v. Silvester Perez
Date: August 28, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50865
Clean Water Action v. EPA
Date: August 28, 2019
Docket Number:
18-60079
Justia Opinion Summary: This case concerned the EPA's review and decision to revise the earliest compliance dates for new, stringent best available technology economically achievable (BAT) effluent limitations and pretreatment standards for…
MultiPlan, Inc. v. Holland
Date: August 28, 2019
Docket Number:
18-60514
Justia Opinion Summary: After plaintiff disputed discounts applied by MultiPlan under his agreement with PHCS to charges for services he provided to patients that were covered by workers' compensation insurance, he filed suit against PHCS and…
USA v. Abraham Conde-Herrera
Date: August 28, 2019
Docket Number:
19-10129
The King/Morocco v. Sterling McCall Lexus
Date: August 28, 2019
Docket Number:
19-20172
Timothy Munnerlyn v. Scott Willis, Warden
Date: August 28, 2019
Docket Number:
19-30059
USA v. Edgar Ortega-Limones
Date: August 27, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11548
USA v. Robert Williams
Date: August 27, 2019
Docket Number:
18-30902
Flores v. Pompeo
Date: August 27, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40699
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's dismissal of plaintiff's complaint, seeking a declaration of citizenship under 8 U.S.C. 1503(a). The court held that the district court did not clearly err in denying…
USA v. Alvaro Moncivaiz-Lopez
Date: August 27, 2019
Docket Number:
18-41174
United States v. Aguilar-Alonzo
Date: August 27, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50627
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit vacated defendant's sentence imposed after he pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting the possession with intent to distribute marijuana. The court held that the district court clearly erred by applying a…
Bay Point Properties, Inc. v. MS Transportation Commission
Date: August 27, 2019
Docket Number:
18-60674
Justia Opinion Summary: After a state court jury found that Mississippi state officials violated the Takings Clause by exceeding the scope of a state easement on private property, the jury granted a monetary award considerably lower than the…
David Smith-Garcia v. Harrison County, et al
Date: August 27, 2019
Docket Number:
18-60781
Brock Services, LLC v. Rogillio
Date: August 27, 2019
Docket Number:
19-30363
Justia Opinion Summary: Brock filed suit against a former employee for violating his employment agreement's non-compete provision and requested a preliminary injunction. The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of the injunction,…
United States v. Fuentes-Rodriguez
Date: August 26, 2019
Docket Number:
15-40740
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed defendant's sentence imposed after he pleaded guilty to illegal reentry into the United States following deportation and having been previously convicted of an aggravated felony. The court held…
Ramiro Ibarra v. Lorie Davis, Director
Date: August 26, 2019
Docket Number:
17-70014
Valderas v. City of Lubbock
Date: August 26, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11023
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of a law enforcement officer, dismissing plaintiff's 42 U.S.C. 1983 excessive force claim. The court held that plaintiff failed to…
USA v. Jamaal Dunson
Date: August 26, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11036
Kesha Terry v. Supervisor and Deten Workers
Date: August 26, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11115
USA v. Hector Urbina-Munoz
Date: August 26, 2019
Docket Number:
18-20158
USA v. Kevin Harden
Date: August 26, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40985
Anil Kumar v. William Barr, U. S. Atty Gen
Date: August 26, 2019
Docket Number:
18-60432
Double Eagle Energy Services, LLC v. MarkWest Utica EMG, LLC
Date: August 26, 2019
Docket Number:
19-30207
Justia Opinion Summary: After Double Eagle filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, it filed suit against MarkWest and Ohio Gathering on a contract claim in Louisiana federal court. Double Eagle then assigned its claim against defendants to one of its…
USA v. Allen Griffin
Date: August 26, 2019
Docket Number:
19-50016
Crutsinger v. Davis
Date: August 26, 2019
Docket Number:
19-70012
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner moved for a certificate of appealability (COA) to appeal whether, under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(6), extraordinary circumstances required the Fifth Circuit to reopen the final judgment and grant…
Klocke v. Watson
Date: August 23, 2019
Docket Number:
17-11320
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit held that the Texas Citizens Participation Act, which is a type of anti-SLAPP statute, does not apply to diversity cases in federal court. In this case, plaintiff's son committed suicide after being…
Pena Oseguera v. Barr
Date: August 23, 2019
Docket Number:
17-60339
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner appealed the denial of his application for asylum and withholding of removal. The Fifth Circuit held, in light of Matter of L-E-A-, -- which stands for the proposition that families may qualify as social…
Regina Goldston v. City of Fort Worth
Date: August 23, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11160
USA v. Josue Martinez
Date: August 23, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11274
USA v. George Cortez, Jr.
Date: August 23, 2019
Docket Number:
18-11300
Cain v. White
Date: August 23, 2019
Docket Number:
18-30955
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment for plaintiffs in an action against Judges of the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court under 42 U.S.C. 1983, alleging that the Judges'…
JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. v. Datatreasury Corp.
Date: August 23, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40043
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of JMPC's motion to compel certain post-judgment discovery. The court held that, although the district court's reliance on the June 2011 date as relevant to DTC's…
USA v. Roger Garcia
Date: August 23, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40843
USA v. Richard Garcia
Date: August 23, 2019
Docket Number:
18-40996
USA v. Alejandro Huerta-Cardenas
Date: August 23, 2019
Docket Number:
19-40081
USA v. Alejandro Huerta-Cardenas
Date: August 23, 2019
Docket Number:
19-40082
USA v. Eduardo Herrera-Nam
Date: August 23, 2019
Docket Number:
19-50130
Jeff Faludi v. U.S. Shale Solutions, L.L.C.
Date: August 22, 2019
Docket Number:
17-20808
United States v. $4,480,466.16 in Funds Seized from Bank of America account ending in 2653
Date: August 22, 2019
Docket Number:
18-10801
Justia Opinion Summary: After the United States seized millions of dollars from a Texas vocational school, the school intervened as a claimant, denied the government’s allegations, and counterclaimed for constitutional tort damages against the…
USA v. Eduardo Morales-Faudoa
Date: August 22, 2019
Docket Number:
18-50475
