2018 Eighth Circuit US Court of Appeals Case Law
Opinions 1001 - 1157 of 1157
Date: February 26, 2018
Docket Number: 16-4503
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of defendant's motion to suppress evidence. The court held that the district court did not clearly err in concluding that the unconstitutional seizure and…
Date: February 21, 2018
Docket Numbers: 16-4520, 17-1206
Justia Opinion Summary: Aerotek petitioned for review of the Board's decision affirming the ALJ's findings that Aerotek violated the National Labor Relations Act in not hiring the Salts and not considering them for hiring. A "salting" campaign…
Date: February 21, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1218
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of habeas relief to defendant with respect to his Arkansas arson conviction. The court found that trial counsel's choice not to challenge a fire investigator's…
Date: February 21, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1710
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's 188 month sentence after he pleaded guilty to one count of possession with intent to distribute cocaine base. The court declined to disturb the sentence on the mere absence of a…
Date: February 16, 2018
Docket Numbers: 16-4517, 17-1809
Justia Opinion Summary: Qwinstar and Pro Logistics entered into an agreement wherein Qwinstar would purchase Pro Logistics and employ its owner for a term of five years. Qwinstar fired the owner a few months after the sale and filed suit…
Date: February 16, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1604
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's dismissal of plaintiff's complaint that alleged claims related to his termination from the police department. The court held that plaintiff's retaliation claim, on its…
Date: February 9, 2018
Docket Numbers: 16-4101, 17-1159
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit dismissed defendants' appeals after they pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. The court held that the change of plea hearings and plea agreements confirmed that defendants…
Date: February 8, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1058
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit reversed the district court's order denying defendant's motion for summary judgment based on qualified immunity. The court held that defendant, a building inspector, did not need probable cause to…
Date: February 6, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1247
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's application of a nine-level sentencing enhancement for recklessly endangering the safety of an aircraft under USSG 2A5.2(a)(2). In this case, defendant pleaded guilty to…
Date: February 5, 2018
Docket Number: 16-3684
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment dismissing several products liability claims brought against Jones Stephens Corporation by Apex Oil. Applying Arkansas law to this dispute, the…
Date: February 5, 2018
Docket Number: 16-3718
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit vacated the district court's order determining that petitioner's one-year statute of limitations for his habeas petition should be equitably tolled. As a preliminary matter, the court held that the…
Date: February 5, 2018
Docket Number: 16-4181
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of the United States' motion to substitute parties and motion to dismiss, as well as Lake Regional's motion for summary judgment. Plaintiff filed suit against…
Date: February 5, 2018
Docket Number: 16-4559
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit vacated the district court's decision affirming the denial of social security disability benefits to plaintiff. The court held that substantial evidence on the record as a whole supported the ALJ's…
Date: February 5, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1366
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's convictions for wire fraud and sentence of 48 months in prison. The court held that there was sufficient evidence to convict defendant of the substantive wire fraud counts and the…
Date: February 2, 2018
Docket Number: 16-4006
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction of committing a hate crime in violation of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr., Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009, 18 U.S.C. 249(a)(1). The court held that the…
Date: February 2, 2018
Docket Number: 16-4091
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance. The court held that defendant's motion to suppress was properly denied where defendant had no objectively…
Date: February 2, 2018
Docket Numbers: 16-4420, 16-4422
Justia Opinion Summary: Mark and Ornella Hammerschmidt were convicted of charges related to their involvement in two schemes to obtain fraudulent tax refunds from the Treasury through the IRS. Mark was sentenced to 135 months in prison and…
Date: February 2, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1002
Justia Opinion Summary: A public employee cannot be terminated for making protected statements during a campaign for public office where that speech has no demonstrated impact on the efficiency of office operations. The Eighth Circuit affirmed…
Date: February 1, 2018
Docket Number: 16-3822
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of petitioner's application for a writ of habeas corpus. Assuming that petitioner enjoyed a constitutional right to choose counsel whom his parents could afford to…
Date: February 1, 2018
Docket Number: 16-4391
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's judgment in favor of Eco-Energy in a breach of contract action filed by the Bank. The court held that the district court did not err by granting partial summary judgment…
Date: February 1, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1074
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction and sentence for one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and three counts of money laundering. The court held that the evidence was sufficient to convict defendant…
Date: January 29, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1319
Justia Opinion Summary: In the underlying lawsuit, A1's filed an action against Decker after the plastic bags Decker sold to A1's deteriorated in the sunlight because they were not manufactured with an ultraviolet inhibitor. In this appeal, the…
Date: January 26, 2018
Docket Number: 16-3067
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs filed suit against the superintendent of the school district under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, 29 U.S.C. 794, after their son committed suicide, alleging that the school had discriminated against…
Date: January 26, 2018
Docket Numbers: 16-3419, 16-4472
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit vacated a jury verdict in favor of plaintiff in an action alleging that plaintiff's decedent contracted acute myeloid leukemia from benzene exposure while working as a truck driver. The court held that…
Date: January 26, 2018
Docket Number: 16-3927
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment to Zurich, holding that the district court did not err in concluding that the commercial general liability policy issued by Zurich to EPS did not…
Date: January 26, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1023
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. 924(e), holding that defendant's previous conviction for Minnesota first degree robbery was a violent felony and a…
Date: January 25, 2018
Docket Number: 16-3366
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit alleging that a court administrator discriminated against him on the basis of his race when plaintiff applied to represent indigent murder defendants. The court held that plaintiff's second amended…
Date: January 25, 2018
Docket Number: 16-3886
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's sentence, holding that defendant's previous conviction for Oklahoma voluntary manslaughter qualified as a crime of violence under both versions of the Guidelines (2015 and 2016).…
Date: January 25, 2018
Docket Number: 16-4558
Justia Opinion Summary: After plaintiff was injured by a load of boxes he was hauling, he filed suit against IP and John Doe, an employee of IP, alleging that Doe negligently failed to secure the load and that IP negligently supervised the…
Date: January 25, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1911
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's sentence of 160 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to one count of bank robbery. The court found no error, plain or otherwise, in the district court's imposition of…
Date: January 24, 2018
Docket Number: 16-4116
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of defendant's motion for judgment of acquittal or a new trial after she was convicted of possession of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute and conspiracy…
Date: January 24, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1411
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction and sentence for conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and controlled substance analogues, as well as conspiracy to commit money laundering. The court held that…
Date: January 23, 2018
Docket Number: 16-3699
Justia Opinion Summary: A coram nobis petitioner whose motion for 28 U.S.C. 2255 relief was denied while he was in custody must obtain authorization from a three-judge panel of the court of appeals in accordance with section 2244(b)(3)(B). The…
Date: January 22, 2018
Docket Number: 16-4328
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's imposition of a sentencing enhancement under USSG 2K2.1(a)(4)(A) after defendant pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of a firearm as a previously convicted felony. The…
Date: January 19, 2018
Docket Numbers: 16-1860, 16-2313
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction and sentence for charges related to his involvement in a scheme to defraud TierOne Bank's shareholders and to mislead its regulators by concealing millions of dollars in…
Date: January 11, 2018
Docket Number: 16-3968
Justia Opinion Summary: Missouri Revised Statute Sections 328.020 and 329.030, which require African-style hair braiders to have a license to work for pay, is rationally related to a legitimate state interest in protecting consumers and…
Date: January 11, 2018
Docket Number: 16-4088
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's imposition of a ten year term of supervised release and a special travel condition where defendant pleaded guilty to failing to register as a sex offender. This was…
Date: January 11, 2018
Docket Number: 16-4433
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit denied a petition for review of the BIA's order dismissing petitioner's appeal from the IJ's decision finding petitioner removable and denial of his applications for withholding of removal and for…
Date: January 10, 2018
Docket Number: 16-3646
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's order striking LNG's verified claim in a civil forfeiture proceeding. The court held that LNG's verified claim was materially indistinguishable from the claim a panel of…
Date: January 9, 2018
Docket Number: 16-3631
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment for Rock-Tenn in a civil rights action alleging religion and sex discrimination. The Eighth Circuit held that Title VII did not impose a legal…
Date: January 9, 2018
Docket Number: 16-3808
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's dismissal of plaintiff's putative class action alleging that Scottrade violated the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act, breach of a common law fiduciary duty, and unjust…
Date: January 9, 2018
Docket Number: 17-6014
Justia Opinion Summary: The Bankruptcy Appellate Panel affirmed the bankruptcy court's conclusion that DPG's claim against debtor was not nondischargeable under 11 U.S.C. 523(a)(6). The panel held that the bankruptcy court did not clearly err…
Date: January 8, 2018
Docket Number: 17-2132
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's consecutive sentences for witness tampering and drug trafficking. The court held that the district court explained its decision based on the 18 U.S.C. 3553(a) factors; there was no…
Date: January 5, 2018
Docket Numbers: 16-1763, 16-3443
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of ConAgra in an action seeking to recover severance benefits under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. 1001…
Date: January 5, 2018
Docket Number: 16-1889
Justia Opinion Summary: The Insurer appealed the district court's grant of summary judgment for the insured in a dispute regarding damage from a hailstorm to windows in the insured's home. An appraisal panel issued an appraisal award but the…
Date: January 5, 2018
Docket Number: 16-3230
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment to at-will employees in an action alleging breach of contract against Panera. Plaintiffs filed suit on behalf of themselves and a class of…
Date: January 5, 2018
Docket Number: 16-4008
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of defendant's motion to withdraw his guilty plea for drug-related offenses. The court held that the district court did not abuse its discretion in denying the…
Date: January 5, 2018
Docket Number: 16-4159
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit dismissed petitioners' challenge to the FMCSA's final rule entitled "Medical Examiner’s Certification Integration." Petitioners are the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) and an…
Date: January 5, 2018
Docket Number: 16-4163
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's imposition of a sentencing enhancement under USSG 2K2.1(a)(4) because defendant had a previous conviction for Missouri second-degree assault that the district court…
Date: January 5, 2018
Docket Number: 16-4378
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit reversed the district court's grant of a petition for habeas relief, holding that Martinez v. Ryan, 566 U.S. 1 (2012), does not excuse a procedural default that occurs in the appeal of a collateral…
Date: January 5, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1343
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's sentence on remand after he was convicted of multiple child-pornography related offenses, holding that defendant's sentence was substantively reasonable and the district court did…
Date: January 4, 2018
Docket Number: 17-2875
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit granted Borowiak's petition for mandamus in an underlying action involving claims related to a supply agreement between the parties. Borowiak sought to vacate an order of the district court that…
Date: January 3, 2018
Docket Numbers: 17-1258, 17-1259
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction for firearms-related charges. The court held that the district court properly allowed the evidence of the photo line up to go to the jury because the identification…
Date: January 2, 2018
Docket Number: 16-3553
Date: January 2, 2018
Docket Number: 16-3682
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against the county under 42 U.S.C. 1983, alleging that the county jail's postcard-only incoming-mail policy for non-privileged mail violated her First and Fourteenth Amendment rights by impermissibly…
Date: January 2, 2018
Docket Number: 16-3949
Justia Opinion Summary: FCR filed suit against numerous defendants associated with the Life Investors Owners Participation Trust, alleging breaches of fiduciary duties and conversion. The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of…
Date: January 2, 2018
Docket Number: 16-4039
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's 105-month sentence after he pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of ammunition. The court held that the district court did not err by finding that defendant's prior…
Date: January 2, 2018
Docket Number: 16-4308
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of defendant's motion to suppress evidence and remanded for resentencing. The court held that the district court did not clearly err in finding abandonment of the…
Date: January 2, 2018
Docket Numbers: 17-1045, 17-1047
Justia Opinion Summary: The Eighth Circuit reversed the district court's dismissal of the complaint based on lack of subject matter jurisdiction. The parties had previously entered into a Separation Agreement to divide jointly owned assets, and…
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