First Circuit Court of Appeals News Archives

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.

An attorney for an amusement machine vendor says North Carolina lacks a consistent public policy when it allows Cherokee Indians to run video poker machines but bans them everywhere else.

It's the libel case that set free speech advocates reeling: Noonan v. Staples Inc.

The Southern Union gas company has appealed an $18 million penalty for illegally storing hazardous mercury waste.

The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled that companies cannot recover the cost of fighting lawsuits or administrative cases alleging wrongful director or officer conduct unless the cases name the individuals as parties.

More Obama nominates 2 for appeals court openings October 06, 2009 5:30 PM EDT WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama on Tuesday said he would nominate a pair of Northeastern judges to appeals court positions.

I just discovered today this notable opinion from the First Circuit concerning the Second Amendment and federal juvenile prosecution and punishment.

A Rhode Island state trooper three years ago pulled over a van carrying undocumented Guatemalan immigrants to work, asked everyone inside for identification and then escorted the vehicle to a federal immigration office after the passengers could not present proof of citizenship.

The Clerk of Court for the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Richard Cushing Donovan, is leaving for a job in New Hampshire.

President Barack Obama on Tuesday said he would nominate a pair of Northeastern judges to appeals court positions.

Massachusetts' highest court has ruled that the former CEO of pharmaceutical company Astra USA Inc.

A New Hampshire woman sentenced to 35 years in prison for plotting to kill federal agents during a nine-month standoff at her home is appealing her conviction and sentence.

Drugmaker Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. says its new diabetes drugs, Onglyza, has been approved for sale in the European Union's 27 countries.

On the field, the Seminoles continue to struggle to get back to their winning ways.

The sanctity of religious faith and the imperatives of public education are colliding in the debate over the November vote on a repeal of Maine's same-sex marriage law.