First Circuit Court of Appeals News

Justice Department lawyers filed a petition yesterday urging a federal appeals court in Boston to reconsider its ruling upholding a $101.7 million award to four men who were found to have been framed by the FBI for a gangland slaying and spent decades behind bars.

In the battle over the latest proposed cell tower to meet resistance from the locals, the U.S. Court of Appeals is siding with T-Mobile. The Washington state-based company prevailed against the city on Nov.

The U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit, has set a briefing schedule in Barr v Galvin, 09-2426. The brief of Massachusetts state officials is due December 21, 2009.

The attorney for Family Winemakers of California said current state law prevents direct-to-consumer shipments of 98 percent of wine produced out of state, while allowing all Massachusetts wineries to directly deliver their products.

Federal agents are investigating whether a Rhode Island woman broke the law after importing a painting taken from a Jewish art dealer and auctioned by the Nazis.

A ruling on whether Pensacola Beach residents will have to pay property taxes is now imminent.

A federal appeals court recently ruled that technology purchase deals include an implied contract under Massachusetts state law requiring buyers to make reasonable efforts to develop and promote the technology.

Gerald Leader loves California wines but lives in Massachusetts, where state law sharply limits the ability of out-of-state wineries to ship their products directly to consumers.

Gerald Leader loves California wines but lives in Massachusetts, where state law sharply limits the ability of out-of-state wineries to ship their products directly to consumers.

Removal jurisdiction under the Class Action Fairness Act may apply even though the plaintiffsa complaint does not specifically define a proposed class, the 1st Circuit has ruled.

Governor Linda Lingle nominated District Court Judge Edwin C. Nacino to serve as a Circuit Court judge of the First Circuit on Tuesday.

Two of four men convicted of aiding Ed and Elaine Brown during their prolonged 2007 standoff in Plainfield have appealed their convictions and sentences to the First Circuit Court of Appeals.

A strip search procedure previously used by the county jail has been ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge.

Attorneys from around the country descended Wednesday on the federal courthouse in Bangor for a conference on a class-action lawsuit against the makers of light cigarettes.

A former Providence hospital executive asked a federal appeals court on Tuesday to overturn his corruption convictions, saying the trial judge gave the jury bad legal instructions.

Medical Mutual Insurance Co. cannot force its D&O carrier to pay for its $325,000 settlement of a disability discrimination suit by MMIC's ex-CEO because that action did not name any director or officer, a federal appeals court in Boston has ruled.

On Tuesday, Circuit Judge Bill Wright dismissed charges against a Sarasota man who was accused of lewd and lascivious battery upon a 12-year-old fellow member of his Boy Scout troupe while on a 2007 outing in Jackson County.

In the dark past of the Fernald School for the disabled, the nation's oldest publicly funded facility for those with developmental disabilities, some children were subject to Cold War experiments a ' including being fed radioactive cereal a ' while other patients allegedly were tagged as "morons" even as tests showed them to be normal.

Survivor star Richard Hatch is due to be released from federal prison Friday, but he is still fighting his sentence and conviction for failing to pay taxes on his $1 million prize.

No malice was involved when a company sent an e-mail saying an employee was fired for allegedly padding his expense reports, a jury has concluded in a closely watched case because of the First Amendment issue it raised.