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Tenth Cir: No Relief for Nathan Dunlap in Chuck E. Cheese Murders
By Robyn Hagan Cain | Last updated on
The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals denied Chuck E. Cheese killer Nathan Dunlap's presumptive and actual prejudice challenges to an armed-robbery conviction...
No Reasonable Person Here: Court Refuses to Suppress Evidence
By Robyn Hagan Cain | Last updated on
Every time we read an opinion, like the one in this Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals case, in which a court determines that a search was consensual because a...
Tenth Circuit Rejects Snowmass Ski Project Lawsuit
By Robyn Hagan Cain | Last updated on
Good news, slope-bound attorneys: Snowmass will open this week, five days earlier that initially planned, thanks to early, heavy snow. And now, let's tie ski...
Let's Go, Intellectual Labor! No Copyright for Inane Cheer
By Robyn Hagan Cain | Last updated on
According to the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, one can only copyright material that requires "intellectual labor." "Let's Go Thunder," in the court's...
Lies Don't Lay Groundwork to Withdraw a Guilty Plea
By Robyn Hagan Cain | Last updated on
When Fleetwood Mac cooed “tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies,” they were referring to lies that can spare feelings in a relationship, not lies to support...
Supreme Court Denies Cert in Tenth Circuit Highway Cross Case
By Robyn Hagan Cain | Last updated on
The Supreme Court denied cert this week in the Utah Highway Cross Cases out of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals: Utah Highway Patrol Association v. American...