• In Re Redondo Construction Corporation v. Puerto Rico Highway and Transportation Authority

    Publication Date: 2012-05-14
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    Date Filed: 2012-05-11
    Court: 1st Cir.
    Judge: Selya, Circuit Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 11-1614

    Before Lynch, Chief Judge, Selya and Lipez, Circuit Judges.This appeal consolidates three adversary proceedings that were tried in the bankruptcy court. Each proceeding involves a discrete se

  • United States v. Gonzalez-VÉLez

    Publication Date: 2009-12-08
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    Date Filed: 2009-11-25
    Court: 1st Cir.
    Judge: Torruella, Circuit Judge.
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    Case Number: 07-2277

    Before Lynch, Chief Judge, Torruella and Selya, Circuit Judges.In this appeal, defendant-appellant Rafael A. Gonz lez-Vélez ("Gonz lez-Vélez") challenges his sentence followin

  • Wonderland Greyhound Park, Inc. v. Autotote Sys., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2002-01-02
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    Date Filed: 2001-12-19
    Court: 1st Cir.
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    The full case caption appears at the end of this opinion. David M. Olasov with whom Baer Marks & Upham LLP, Scott A.Roberts, A. Lauren Carpenter, and Sullivan, Weinst

  • Figueroa v. J.C. Penney Puerto Rico, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2009-06-15
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    Date Filed: 2009-06-11
    Court: 1st Cir.
    Judge: Selya, Circuit Judge.
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    Case Number: 08-1032

    Before Torruella, Selya and Leval,*fn1 Circuit Judges.This appeal requires us to consider the interplay between the statute of limitations and the maintenance of d

  • Carlos Alberto Marques Viveiros v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attorney General

    Publication Date: 2012-07-02
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    Date Filed: 2012-06-25
    Court: 1st Cir.
    Judge: Selya, Circuit Judge.
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    Case Number: 11-1535

    Before Lynch, Chief Judge, Selya and Boudin, Circuit Judges.The petitioner, Carlos Alberto Marques Viveiros, is a Portuguese national. He seeks judicial review of a final order of the Board o

  • Central Pension Fund of the International Union of Operating Engineers v. Ray Haluch Gravel Co

    Publication Date: 2012-09-17
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    Date Filed: 2012-09-12
    Court: 1st Cir.
    Judge: Selya, Circuit Judge.
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    Case Number: 11-1944

    Before Thompson, Selya and Dyk,*fn1 Circuit Judges.This appeal requires us to resolve two issues of first impression in this circuit. The first, which has di

  • College of Dental Surgeons of Puerto Rico v. Connecticut General Life Insurance Co.

    Publication Date: 2009-10-27
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    Date Filed: 2009-10-22
    Court: 1st Cir.
    Judge: Selya, Circuit Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 09-2201

    Before Selya, Boudin and Howard, Circuit Judges.The pivotal question in this appeal is whether removal jurisdiction under the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA), Pub. L. No. 109-2, 119 Stat. 4 (2005)

  • In re Hill

    Publication Date: 2009-04-06
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    Date Filed: 2009-04-01
    Court: 1st Cir.
    Judge: Selya, Circuit Judge.
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    Case Number: 08-9006

    Before Torruella, Selya and Lipez, Circuit Judges.This bankruptcy appeal concerns a matter of first impression at the circuit court level. The pivotal question is this: May a debtor's homestead exe

  • James Haley v. City of Boston, et al

    Publication Date: 2011-09-22
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    Date Filed: 2011-09-19
    Court: 1st Cir.
    Judge: Selya, Circuit Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 10-2064

    BeforeThompson, Selya and Dyk,*fn1Circuit Judges.After the discovery of previously undisclosed evidence resulted in the vacation of his murder convicti

  • IMS Health Inc. v. Ayotte

    Publication Date: 2008-11-24
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    Date Filed: 2008-11-18
    Court: 1st Cir.
    Judge: Selya, Circuit Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 07-1945

    Before Lipez, Selya, and Siler, *fn1 Circuit Judges.The spiraling cost of brand-name prescription drugs is a matter of great concern to government at every level.