Where a petitioner from Somalia claimed that the Board of Immigration Appeals improperly supplanted the immigration judge’s findings with its own after the immigration judge granted a waiver of inadmissibility and deferral of removal, there was no showing that the ...

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Plaintiff appealed from the denial of his Rule 60(b) motion. Where there was no abuse of discretion in denying plaintiff’s motion for relief from judgment as relief was authorized only in the most exceptional cases, the court affirmed judgment. Judgment ...

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Where appellant, who was found guilty after a bench trial of violating four municipal traffic ordinances, challenged the identifications of him made by officers, the appellant’s complaints ignored the relevant standard of review, so the judgment is affirmed. Judgment is ...

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Lemus-Arita v. Sessions (MLW No. 70422/Case No. 16-1924 – 8 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Gruender, J.)

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Ingram v. Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis Pension Plan for Nonschedule Employees (MLW No. 68727/Case No. 14-3589 – 13 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Loken, J.)

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Johnson v. United of Omaha Life Insurance Company (MLW No. 67314/Case No. 13-2645 – 10 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Shepherd, J.)

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Campbell, et al. v. County Commission of Franklin County, et al. (MLW No. 66685/Case No. ED99622 – 25 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Van Amburg, J.)

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Waldoch v. Medtronic, Inc. (MLW No. 66621/Case No. 13-2543 – 16 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Shepherd, J.)

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Where an involuntarily committed patient in a sex offender unit brought a civil rights claim of constitutionally deficient medical care after untreated boils resulted in diseased tissue and a lower-leg amputation, the district court should have applied the deliberate indifference ...

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Flack v. St. John’s Mercy Medical Center (MLW No. 65659/Case No. ED99711 – 2 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Ahrens, J.)

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Shelly v. Drury Inns, Inc. (MLW No. 65658/Case No. ED99812/ED99813 – 5 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Ahrens, J.)

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