The Penobscot Nation (the
"Nation") filed suit in federal court against the State of Maine
and various state officials (the "State Defendants"), claiming
rights as to a 60-mile stretch of the Penobscot River, commonly
known as the "Main Stem." The United States intervened in support
of the Nation. Private interests, towns, and other political
entities, whom we shall call th

This is an appeal from the approval of a settlement of a Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3) class action arising out of hexavalent chromium contamination in Jersey City,
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New Jersey. The class action was brought on behalf of property owners in several neighborhoods in Jersey City whose homes were allegedly contaminated by byproducts disposed of at two chromium chemical manufacturing

No judge in active service on this court requested that the court be polled
in response to the petition for rehearing en banc. The petition is denied. The
panel’s prior opinion is withdrawn, and this opinion is substituted.
When Brenda Brinsdon was a sophomore at a high school in McAllen,
Texas, she was required to participate in what defendants claim was a mock
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performan

This case involves a question of insurance coverage: When
has a building or part of a building “collapsed” if that term is left
undefined in an insurance policy? The gas station owner in this
case demanded that its insurance company pay up when the
fiberglass sheath of one of its underground gasoline storage tanks
split after resting on a rock for 16 years. On cross-motions for

Petitioners, a group of environmental
organizations, challenge the Environmental Protection
Agency’s decision to stay implementation of portions of a final
rule concerning methane and other greenhouse gas emissions.
For the reasons set forth in this opinion, we conclude that EPA
lacked authority under the Clean Air Act to stay the rule, and
we therefore grant petitioners’ m

The Summit County Grand Jury indicted Powell on one count of aggravated
murder in violation of R.C. 2903.01(A), a special felony, one count of complicity to commit
aggravated murder in violation of R.C. 2903.01(A) and R.C. 2923.03, a special felony, and one
count of obstructing justice in violation of R.C. 2921.32(A)(5), a third-degree felony. The
indictment arose from the mur

Laredo, TX - Pair Sentenced in Stolen Identity Tax Refund Fraud Scheme

Two Texas men have been ordered to prison following their convictions for conspiring to fraudulently claim federal income tax refunds using stolen identity information,. Sunday Quincy Usoh, 47, of Dallas, and Jeffery Wahab Jubril, 43, of Killeen, pleaded guilty May 17, 2016.

“These international thieves and th

Bandy and an unknown accomplice attempted to rob Madaris and his
brother Steward at Ziegler Park, also known as Peaslee Park, in the early evening on
April 24, 2015. Bandy and his accomplice were both brandishing guns. Madaris
reacted by pushing the accomplice, causing him to drop his gun before running off.
Madaris then tussled with Bandy before ascending the fence on the s

Around 6:00 p.m. on September 12, 2015, Joseph Lackner and Roy Jones were
walking home from a neighborhood block party in Indianapolis. While
walking along the eastern border of Garfield Park, Lackner and Jones saw a
group of teens on the opposite side of the street. The teens crossed the street,
surrounded Lackner and Jones, and demanded that the two men hand over
their

New York, NY - Former Chief Financial Officer Of American Realty Capital Partners (“ARCP”) Found Guilty After Trial Of Accounting Fraud

A federal jury today found Brian Block, the former chief financial officer of the publicly traded real estate investment trust (“REIT”) formerly known as American Realty Capital Partners (“ARCP”), guilty of inflating a key metric used to evaluate the fina

On October 9, 2010, the State filed a criminal
complaint charging Nieves and Maldonado with first-degree
intentional homicide, as a party to the crime and with the use
of a dangerous weapon, and attempted first-degree intentional
homicide, as a party to the crime and with the use of a
dangerous weapon. The complaint alleged that Nieves and
Maldonado were involved in

Mosely was charged with and convicted of two counts of distribution of a controlled
substance in the Circuit Court of Cole County.1 Mosely does not challenge the sufficiency
of the evidence to support his convictions, but he notes that his arrest was based on line-up
identifications by an undercover officer and a confidential informant nearly three years
after the undercover d

Columbus, OK - Ohio Man Pleads Guilty to Providing Material Support to Terrorists

Court records unsealed today reveal that Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud, 25, of Columbus, Ohio, pleaded guilty to all counts alleged against him regarding a terrorist plot.

A federal grand jury charged Mohamud in April 2015 with one count of attempting to provide and providing material support to terroris

Houston, TX - Justice Department Secures the Denaturalization of a Repeat Child Sex Abuser

Judge Vanessa D. Gilmore of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas entered an order that revoked the naturalized U.S. citizenship of a child sex abuser, restrained and enjoined him from claiming any rights, privileges, or advantages of U.S. citizenship, and ordered him to immedia

Guymon, OK - Kanz Society, Inc. v. Titan Towers, LLP, American Towers, LLC and American Tower Corporation

Plaintiff leased space on a tower owned by Defendants and located in Texas County, Oklahoma. The towers became unsafe and defendant's agents cut the guy wires causing the tower to collapse damaging Plaintiff's property.

Plaintiff claimed that Defendants' employees were negli

Sioux Falls, SD - Pink Slime Libel Case Settled

Beef Products, Inc. sued ABC on a libel theory claiming that The American Broadcasting Company allegation that Beef Products was producing "pink slime" was untrue. Plaintiff claimed that ABC misled consumers into believing that the product was unsafe, is not beef and is not nutritious.

ABC claimed that its publication was truthful

Knoxville, TN - Physician and Wife to Pay $1.2 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations that They Billed Medicare and Medicaid for Unapproved Drugs

Dr. Anindya Sen and Patricia Posey Sen will pay $1.208 million to resolve state and federal False Claims Act allegations that their medical practice billed Medicare and Tennessee Medicaid (TennCare) for anticancer and infusion drugs that

San Francisco, CA - Former Packaged Seafood Executive Pleads Guilty to Price Fixing

A former senior vice president of sales for a packaged seafood company pleaded guilty for his role in a conspiracy to fix the price of packaged seafood, such as canned tuna, sold in the United States.

According to documents filed in this case, Stephen Hodge and his co-conspirators agreed to fix t

Guymon, OK - Scott Holmes v. Sandy Creek Pipeline Construction, LLC, et al.

1. PERSONAL INJURY

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Florence, SC - Man Sentenced for Illegal Re-Entry Charges

Jose Hernandez Guerrero, age 39, from Pamplico, was sentenced in federal court in Florence, South Carolina, for Illegal Re-entry into the United States after deportation, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a)(2). United States District Judge R. Bryan Harwell, of Florence, sentenced Guerrero to 15 months imprisonment followed by thre

Savannah, GA - South Georgia Farmers to Pay Up To $675,000 to Resolve False Claims Act Suit

Bacon County (Georgia) farmers Julian Rigby, Jasper Allen and Benjamin Swain, as well as several entities owned by Rigby, agreed to pay up to $675,000 to resolve allegations that they violated and conspired to violate the False Claims Act. This settlement is the first False Claims Act recovery invo

Section 663 of the Code of Civil Procedure allows an aggrieved party in a
civil case to move the trial court to vacate its final judgment. The question in this
case is whether an order denying one of those motions is appealable even if it
raises issues that could have been litigated via an appeal of the judgment. We
answered yes to this question over a century ago. (See Bond v. Uni

Los Angeles, CA - Former Agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration Pleads Guilty to Stealing Fraud Proceeds

A former special agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) pleaded guilty to stealing fraud proceeds that she had been assigned to recover on behalf of fraud victims.

Artemis Papadakis, 57, of Richmond, California, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jil

Washington, D.C. - Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Travel Ban Case In Fall

These cases involve challenges to Executive Order No. 13780, Protecting the Nation From Foreign TerroristEntry Into the United States. The order alters practicesconcerning the entry of foreign nationals into the United States by, among other things, suspending entry of nationals from six designated countries for 90 da

In this qualified immunity case, Ann Arbor police officers
relied on a security camera’s footage of a robbery, allegedly without accounting for inconsistent
eyewitness testimony, in drafting a search warrant for Joseph Bailey’s residence. Yet the
warrant did not say whether the description of Bailey came from the robbery victim or just the
video and indeed mentioned both sources of