Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals News

A federal appeals court has refused to dismiss a civil lawsuit against two West Memphis police officers who were involved in the fatal shooting of a 12-year-old boy.

A group of Missouri death row inmates on Tuesday lost an appeal that had temporarily halted executions in the state.Though the ruling by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals moves the state closer to once again scheduling executions, it could be several more months before the ruling is considered final.The three-judge appeals court panel on ...

James Norman's lawsuit alleged prison officials should have protected him from a September 2005 assault that left him with a cut above the eye, a broken nose, abrasions and a concussion.

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals will get a new trial to determine if the drugmaker should pay punitive damages to a woman who got breast cancer after taking hormone replacement therapy, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit has upheld Arkansas district court decisions in a products liability case against pharmaceutical companies that are the makers of hormone therapy drugs that, combined, have been linked to breast cancer.

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals will get a new trial to determine if the drugmaker should pay punitive damages to a woman who got breast cancer after taking hormone replacement therapy, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.

Federal Magistrate Susan Richard Nelson will be nominated for the vacant federal judgeship from Minnesota, I'm reliably informed.

A federal appeals court says drugmaker Wyeth Pharmaceuticals will get a new trial to determine if the company should pay punitive damages for continuing to make and sell an estrogen-replacement drug after scientific studies had linked it to breast cancer.

The new issue of the Weekly Standard carries my article "The flying imams win." In the article I take a brief look back at Judge Montgomery's July decision denying official immunity to the law enforcement officers who detained and questioned the flying imams at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.

In her majority opinion, Judge Diana Murphy treats as a factual finding the district court's determination that the statement that an abortion "will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique living human being" is a value judgment, rather than a medical fact, and she relies on a declaration submitted by one of the plaintiffs to provide ...

Under Treasury Regulation 1.451-6 , crop producers who typically don't sell - and claim income - from their crops until the year after production typically can also wait to declare crop insurance indemnity payments.

As a Tulsa attorney appealing a case from the Northern District of Oklahoma, I was summoned to Denver to give oral argument, an abbreviated presentation of the case, but which can have stressful overtones.

By Monica Wepking, Editor Attorney Tom Tobin, representing Charles Mix County , and Attorney Tim Whalen, representing post 1948 landowners, both confirmed that the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has granted them a month's extension to file a petition to ask the full court to review the panel's August 25, 2009 Yankton Sioux Tribe Reservation ...

Most people react with disbelief when I tell them that many women inmates are shackled to the hospital bed during labor.

Omaha's former public safety auditor who was fired after releasing a report critical of the Police Department is taking part of her lawsuit to the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.

A 51-year-old grandfather who grows garbanzo beans and other crops in northwestern North Dakota was among the protesters arrested Tuesday for planting hemp seeds on the lawn of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration offices.

By Monica Wepking, Editor Charles Mix County Commissioners met with attorneys and post 1948 landowners on Thursday, October 1, 2009 in the CMC County Courthouse.

Developer John Kline has appealed a judge's decision to dismiss his personal bankruptcy petition.

The man convicted in the 2003 kidnapping and killing of University of North Dakota student Dru Sjodin has been granted more time in his death sentence appeal.

In Hudson v. Michigan , Justice Antonin Scalia argued that the exclusionary rule was unnecessary because of "[a]nother development over the past half-century that deters civil-rights violations," namely, "the increasing professionalism of police forces, including a new emphasis on internal police discipline." The good folks of Bella Villa, Missouri ...