Post-Retirement Opinions

Post-Retirement Opinions by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor

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J And G Sales Ltd v Truscott(473 F.3d 1043)
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit - October 20, 2006
O’CONNOR, Associate Justice (Ret.). The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives appeals from the district court’s grant of summary judgment holding that the Bureau lacks authority to issue a letter requiring a small percentage of licens...

Greer v Chao(492 F.3d 962)
United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit - February 12, 2007
O’CONNOR, Associate Justice (Ret.). This case considers the response of the Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) to Donald Greer’s complaint filed under the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act of...

US v Jiminez(487 F.3d 1140)
United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit - February 12, 2007
O’CONNOR, Associate Justice (Ret.). A jury convicted Raul Jiminez of conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute more than 500 grams of methamphetamine. Jiminez challenges the proceedings below on two grounds. First, Jiminez co...

US v Meyer(483 F.3d 865)
United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit - February 13, 2007
O’CONNOR, Associate Justice (Ret). Mark Lou Meyer appeals the district court’s revocation of his probation. Because the district court’s factual findings on the two grounds on which it justified revoking Meyer’s probation were not clearly erroneous,...

US v Gary(528 F.3d 324)
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit - March 18, 2008
O’CONNOR, Associate Justice (Retired): Melvin Gary appeals the district court’s decision to allow the government to introduce evidence obtained from a search of his home pursuant to a warrant. He claims the affidavit underlying that warrant failed t...

Biodiversity Conservation Alliance v Stem(519 F.3d 1226)
United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit - March 18, 2008
O’CONNOR, Associate Justice (Ret.). The United States Forest Service appeals from the district court’s award of attorneys’ fees under the Equal Access to Justice Act (“EAJA”), 28 U.S.C. § 2412(d) to plaintiff Biodiversity Conservation Alliance (“BCA...

Turner v City Council of City of Fredericksburg VA(534 F.3d 352)
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit - March 19, 2008
O’CONNOR, Associate Justice (Retired): Appellant Hashmel Turner claims that the Council for the City of Fredericksburg, Virginia, violated his First Amendment rights when it implemented a policy beginning in 2005 requiring that legislative prayers b...

US v Conley(531 F.3d 56)
United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit - May 5, 2008
SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR, Associate Justice (Retired). Appellant claims the introduction into evidence of phone calls between him and Kenneth Durgin, an inmate in a correctional facility, violated the Federal Wiretap Act, 18 U.S.C. § 2510 et seq. Because...

US v Novak(531 F.3d 99)
United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit - May 5, 2008
O’CONNOR, Associate Justice (Retired). The government in this case brings an extraordinary appeal: It asks us to reverse a district court ruling barring from evidence recordings of phone calls made between an attorney and his client. These calls wer...

Perez-Sanchez v Public Building Authority(531 F.3d 104)
United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit - May 6, 2008
O’CONNOR, Associate Justice (Retired). We consider claims of constitutional violations brought in the aftermath of Puerto Rico’s Popular Democratic Party election victories in 2001, and affirm the district court’s dismissal of some claims, and grant...

McGill v Minnesota Mut Life Ins Co(285 Fed.Appx. 765)
United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit - June 30, 2008
O’CONNOR, Associate Justice (Retired). Appellant John McGill appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment against him on his claims that his insurer breached its insurance contract and its fiduciary duty, and engaged in misrepresentation a...

US v Laboy-Torres(553 F.3d 715)
United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit - November 20, 2008
O’CONNOR, Associate Justice (Retired). Under federal law, it is a crime for any person “who has been convicted in any court of, a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year” to ship, transport, receive or possess a firearm or amm...

Alegria v Williams(314 Fed.Appx. 687)
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit - March 12, 2009
SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR, Associate Justice (Retired):** Plaintiff–Appellant Dana Alegria suffered egregious physical and verbal sexual harassment at the hands of her probation officer. She sued this probation officer, his supervisor, and the State of Te...

In re Eldercare Properties Ltd(568 F.3d 506)
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit - May 13, 2009
O’CONNOR, Associate Justice (Retired): These consolidated appeals concern the vitality of the lease of a nursing home facility, Valley Grand Manor. The lessor, Valley Educational Foundation (“VEF”), argues that it validly terminated the lease in Jun...

Walker v Prince Georges County MD(575 F.3d 426)
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit - May 14, 2009
O’CONNOR, Associate Justice (Retired): This is a case about a wolf named Dutchess. Concerned that the wolf’s presence on residential property posed a risk to the public, a Prince George’s County Animal Control Officer seized Dutchess and left word f...

US v Guild(341 Fed.Appx. 879)
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit - May 15, 2009
Affirmed by unpublished opinion. Associate Justice O’CONNOR wrote the opinion, in which Judge NIEMEYER and Judge GREGORY joined. Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit. O’CONNOR, Associate Justice (Retired): Defendant-appel...

Demings v Nationwide Life Ins Co(593 F.3d 486)
United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit - October 13, 2009
SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR, Associate Justice (Retired). The Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act of 1998 (SLUSA), Pub.L. No. 105–353, 112 Stat. 3227, “provides that private state-law ‘covered’ class actions alleging untruth or manipulation in conne...

Fortis Corporate Ins SA v Viken Ship Management AS(597 F.3d 784)
United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit - October 14, 2009
SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR, Associate Justice (Retired). This is a maritime shipping case involving a claim for rust damage to steel coils caused by exposure to seawater during a journey from Szczecin, Poland to Toledo, Ohio. The central issue in this appe...

Harvey v Brewer(605 F.3d 1067)
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit - October 19, 2009
Before: SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR, Associate Justice,* ALEX KOZINSKI, Chief Judge, and SANDRA S. IKUTA, Circuit Judge. OPINION O’CONNOR, Associate Justice (Ret.): Arizona’s Constitution provides: “No person who is adjudicated an incapacitated person sha...

US v Fields(354 Fed.Appx. 254)
United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit - December 4, 2009
SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR, Associate Justice (Ret.). Defendant-Appellant Gerald Fields pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846. Fields was sentenced to a term of 151 months’ i...

Hornbeak-Denton v Myers(361 Fed.Appx. 684)
United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit - January 19, 2010
SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR, Associate Justice (Ret.). This case involves a property dispute over 6.4 acres on the shoreline of Reelfoot Lake. Natalie Hornbeak–Denton and Anne Hornbeak (Appellants) claim ownership of the land and have taken various measures...

Spivey v Adaptive Marketing LLC(622 F.3d 816)
United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit - May 18, 2010
O’CONNOR, Associate Justice (Ret.). Quinten E. Spivey challenges the district court’s grant of summary judgment against him on his claims against Adaptive Marketing for breach of contract and unjust enrichment. Because we find that no reasonable jur...

US v Cruz(611 F.3d 880)
United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit - July 16, 2010
O’CONNOR, Associate Justice (Ret.): Section 7407 of Title 26 of the United States Code permits the United States to seek, and a district court to issue, an injunction prohibiting tax preparers from engaging in certain deceptive or fraudulent practic...

US v Mateos(623 F.3d 1350)
United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit - October 19, 2010
O’CONNOR, Associate Justice (Ret.): Dr. Ana Alvarez and Nurse Sandra Mateos were employees at St. Jude Rehabilitation Center during its brief time as an operating clinic in 2003. St. Jude was ostensibly an HIV treatment center, but it was establishe...

McWhite v ACE American Ins Co(412 Fed.Appx. 584)
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit - December 8, 2010
Affirmed by unpublished opinion. Justice O’CONNOR wrote the opinion, in which Judge DUNCAN and Judge AGEE joined. Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit. O’CONNOR, Associate Justice: Appellant Stanley McWhite appeals the di...

Lauture v Saint Agnes Hosp(429 Fed.Appx. 300)
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit - December 9, 2010
Affirmed by unpublished opinion. Justice O’CONNOR wrote the opinion, in which Judge KING and Judge DAVIS joined. Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit. O’CONNOR, Associate Justice: Geraldine Lauture appeals the district co...

Wernert v Green(419 Fed.Appx. 337)
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit - December 10, 2010
Affirmed by unpublished opinion. Justice O’CONNOR wrote the opinion, in which Chief Judge TRAXLER and Judge KEENAN joined. Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit. O’CONNOR, Associate Justice: Charles Edward Wernert II, the ...

Osterweil v Bartlett(706 F.3d 139)
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit - October 26, 2012
O’CONNOR, Supreme Court Justice (Ret.): This case asks us to evaluate the constitutionality of certain aspects of New York’s handgun licensing regime. As we explain, we believe we should not reach that question before certifying a predicate question...

US v McGuire(706 F.3d 1333)
United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit - January 30, 2013
O’CONNOR, Supreme Court Justice (Ret.): Appellant Jason McGuire fired a single shot from a handgun in the general direction of an airborne police helicopter. Believing he meant to hit the helicopter, a jury convicted McGuire of attempting to “set[ ]...

DZ Bank v. McCranie(513 Fed.Appx. 911)
United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit - March 21, 2013
O’CONNOR, Supreme Court Justice (Ret.): Claiming to be the holder in due course of a commercial loan on which Appellant Michael McCranie had defaulted, Appellee DZ Bank brought an enforcement suit in federal district court. McCranie defended the sui...

US v Gillenwater(749 F.3d 1094)
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit - December 4, 2013
O’CONNOR, Associate Justice (Ret.): Defendant Charles Lee Gillenwater, II, was charged with two counts of transmitting threatening interstate communications and one count of transmitting threatening communications by United States mail. After determ...

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