Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals News

A federal magistrate has denied a bid by a follower of convicted evangelist Tony Alamo to delay the sale of six Fort Smith properties.

On Friday, Jane Kelly became a federal appeals court judge with an unusual background that supporters say makes her a perfect fit for the job and a potential U.S. Supreme Court candidate someday.

A tattooed inmate in one of California's most remote prisons will now get his moment in the Supreme Court sun, along with a shot at clarifying the rules governing certain law enforcement searches.

Jane Kelly will become a federal appeals court judge Friday with an unusual background that supporters say makes her a perfect fit for the job and a potential U.S. Supreme Court candidate.

The Americans with Disabilities Act requires covered employers generally to provide reasonable accommodations to qualified employees with disabilities.

The company that is a target of a $750 million lawsuit filed by Fort Smith-based Arkansas Best Corp.

A federal judge has significantly narrowed the scope of a lawsuit filed by two Omaha, Neb., men who claim the city of Council Bluffs and two former police detectives lied and hid evidence leading to their conviction on murder charges.

A resentencing proceeding Wednesday for a former doctor convicted in the bombing of the leader of the Arkansas Medical Board left him with his original life sentence but afforded his lawyer a chance to again claim his client is innocent.

Jury trial has been set in the case of a man who accuses Creighton University in a lawsuit of discriminating against him because he is deaf.

A United States appeal court has upheld the sentence of a Canadian man convicted in what witnesses called one of the largest credit card schemes in American history.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit recently held that a claim brought under the Fair Labor Standards Act may not proceed when the employee fails to provide evidence of actual damages.

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the sentence of a Canadian man convicted in what witnesses called 1 of the largest credit card schemes in U.S. history.

B & B Hardware sued Hargis Industries for trademark infringement, claiming that defendant's use of the mark "Sealtite" for "self-drilling and self-taping screws" infringed B&B's mark "Sealtight" for fasteners used in the aerospace industry.

Pictured are: From L to R- Julie Bledsoe, Arbitration Director, new arbitrators for Eighth Circuit: Henry Campbell, Jr., Linda Poole, Jewell Hall, Tasha Gadsden, Jerry King, Tamara Cannon, Tiera Moore, Randi Arsenault and Marti Arsenault Eighth Circuit Solicitor David M. Stumbo announces that a new group of volunteers for the Community Juvenile ... (more)

A resentencing proceeding Wednesday for a former doctor convicted in the bombing of the leader of the Arkansas Medical Board left him with his original life sentence but afforded his lawyer a chance to again claim his client is innocent.

A federal appeals panel on Monday upheld the death sentence of a man convicted in the slaying of an Arkansas family as part of a white-separatist plot to create a new nation in the Pacific Northwest.

An appeals panel has upheld the federal death penalty for one of two men convicted in the slaying of an Arkansas family as part of a plot to create a whites-only nation in the Pacific Northwest.

The challenge to the laws came from members of the Westboro Baptist Church [JURIST news archive], who routinely protest the funerals of soldiers and claim that US soldiers killed in combat are God's retribution for American tolerance of homosexuality.

The decision by a panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals stems from a challenge to a pair of 2006 Missouri laws enacted after protests of military members' funerals by a Kansas-based church that denounces homosexuality.

A federal appeals court has upheld a Missouri law banning protests within 300 feet of funerals but has struck down a broader law that could have kept protesters even further away.