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· 12/8/1997

United States v. McKeeve

Citations

  • 131 F.3d 1
  • 1997 WL 740784

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • noting that trials are “meaty affairs,” and “courts should not insist that all taste be extracted from a piece of evidence before a jury can chew on it”
  • noting that trials are “meaty affairs,” and “courts should not insist that all taste be extracted from a piece of evidence before a jury can chew on it”
  • affirming denial of untimely motion to intervene where the 15 district court had adjudicated a summary judgment but before the case had gone to trial
  • analyzing due process claim and stating, “We can hardly conceive of a 10 state’s action bearing more ‘stigmatizing consequences’ than the labeling of a prison inmate as a 11 sex offender”
  • “[T]he U.S. Marshals Service lacks jurisdiction to retain custody of federal detainees on foreign soil. ...”
  • “[W]e have held that the denial of attorneys’ fees was not an abuse of 11 discretion where the plaintiff recovered only nominal damages and received no other meaningful 12 relief.”

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Judges: Selya, Aldrich, Boudin

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