Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals News

Yesterday, President Obama demonstrated his continued commitment to increasing the diversity of our federal judiciary, so that it better reflects the nation it serves.

Moves by more than 30 states in recent years to curb the use of foreign law in U.S. courts has been fueled by "anti-Muslim bigotry" and will present legal and practical problems for American courts and families, according to a new report released Thursday by a pair of leading liberal interest groups.

The Denver Post will report on newly issued Tenth Circuit rulings when it is good and ready: Yesterday, The Denver Post had this article reporting on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit had issued one week earlier, on May 7, 2013.

Daniel Mach, Director, Freedom of Religion and Belief Program, American Civil Liberties Union Edward Swaine, Law Professor, George Washington University Faiza Patel, Co-Director, Liberty and National Security Program, Brennan Center for Justice Matthew Duss, Policy Analyst, Center for American Progress Thursday, May 16, 2013 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court's decision to throw out a negligence suit filed by the parents of a blind teen who was injured when an out-of-control skier collided with tethers tieing her to an instructor on a Breckenridge ski run.

In its recent decision in Brecek & Young Advisors, Inc. v. Lloyds of London Syndicate 2003 , 2013 U.S. App.

It sounded like a freedom-of-religion case when a Columbus, Texas high school relay race team was disqualified from the state track championship because Derrick Hayes pointed heavenward after his team won the race.

I previously wrote about this case when it at the Bankruptcy Court level in an article at http://onforb.es/Q3dmH0 entitled "Kendall: Distress Debtor's Late Transfers Set Aside As Fraudulent Transfers In Bankruptcy". The case was then appealed to the 10th Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel, which issued its own lengthy opinion that shed light on ... (more)

The standard for admitting expert scientific testimony in a federal trial under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure was established in the case of Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceutical , then extended to all expert testimony, not just scientific evidence, in later cases.

The Department of Game and Fish filed a motion Thursday seeking to have the U.S. District Court vacate an injunction from 1977 that prevents New Mexico from allocating ibex, oryx and bighorn sheep licenses based on residency.

It sounded like a freedom-of-religion case when a Columbus, Texas high school relay-race team was disqualified from the state track championship because Derrick Hayes pointed heavenward after his team won the race.

Veteran teams of anti-abortion pro bono lawyers are challenging the fines imposed by the contraception mandate of the Affordable Care Act in U.S. circuit courts of appeals because they claim the mandate places them in a Catch-22: pay the steep fines and adhere to their core religious beliefs or violate their faith and finance contraception.

Students with deep religious convictions are fast turning public schools into the newest battleground over abortion -- much to the dismay of beleaguered school officials.

A federal appeals court has overturned the first-degree murder convictions of an Oklahoma death row inmate in the deaths of a Glenpool couple 12 years ago.

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Recently, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit affirmed in part and reversed in part a district court's award of summary judgment to a mortgage servicer who provided a negative credit report after the borrower refinanced his home without notifying the closing agent that his servicing rights had been transferred.

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Oklahoma County District Court Judge Twyla Mason Gray did not allow Rocky Dodd's trial attorney to present some evidence that someone else may have committed the 1994 murders Dodd has been sentenced to die for.

An appeals court heard arguments Monday that David Magnan's convictions and death sentence for three 2004 murders in Seminole County are invalid because the trial court didn't have jurisdiction.

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