Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals News

Jonesboro school shooter Mitchell Johnson failed Friday in an attempt to have his prison sentences reduced for a series of convictions that followed his release from juvenile custody.

Parkhurst v. Belt, No. 08-2668 This case involves a judgment for injuries caused by the sexual assault of a minor.

He garnered some sympathy from two lower courts, but a three-judge appeals panel isn't letting a Minnesota lawyer off the hook from repaying his massive student loan debt.

The long-running fight over a historic Delaware Lackawanna & Western Railroad locomotive that a railroad group wants to return to Scranton is headed back to a federal appeals court in St.

A federal appeals panel has overturned a lower court ruling that evidence should be disallowed because Arkansas State Police held a driver too long during a traffic stop before checking his vehicle for drugs.

A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a ruling that the seizure of a bag containing 22 pounds of cocaine at an Omaha bus station was illegal.

U.S. District Judge Karen Schreier temporarily prevented the law from going into effect, but the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in July 2008 overruled that order, and the state began enforcing the law.

The Supreme Court has left in place a court order barring Missouri from enforcing a law limiting protests near funerals.

The Legislature passed the measure in 2005 but Planned Parenthood appealed. It operates the state's only abortion clinic in Sioux Falls.

American Boat Company, Inc. v. United States, No. 08-2166 . The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the district courta s denial of American Boata s Motion to Reopen the Time to File an Appeal.

Just a little over a month after the state ended the life of Dennis Skillicorn by lethal injection, executions are again on hold in Missouri .

News Conference to address seizure of Herman Schumacher's home by Tyson Fresh Meats Directed by a court order obtained by Tyson Fresh Meats Inc.

To bring federal charges against Edward T. Norris, prosecutors relied on a broadly drawn public corruption statute now under challenge in a U.S. Supreme Court case that could have direct implications for Maryland's former state police superintendent.

A Des Moines insurance executive who was awarded $47,000 in an age-discrimination lawsuit against his employer will have to reprove his case to get the money after he lost a key battle Thursday in the U.S. Supreme Court.

LITTLE ROCK a ' A federal appeals panel Thursday rejected a mana TMs argument that his drug conviction in Arkansas should be thrown out because a police officer searched his tractor-trailer rig without a warrant.

Supreme Court: Mixed motives jury instruction "is never proper in an ADEA case" June 18, 2009 by Ross Runkel at LawMemo The US Supreme Court decided today that a mixed motives jury instruction "is never proper in an ADEA case." Gross v. FBL Financial Services Gross sued claiming that his demotion was in violation of the Age Discrimination in ...

A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld the 12-year prison sentence of a man convicted of robbing the First National Bank of Cove in 2007.

The U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that local governments can suspend the business permits of companies that hire illegal immigrants.

A federal appeals court says the sewer district in St. Louis may try to force the state to pay part of the cost of improving its system.

Dish Network Corp., which has won a temporary legal reprieve from halting its digital-video recording service, is abusing the legal system with years of legal delays while it continues to infringe TiVo Inc.'s technology, an industry trade group is alleging.