Administrative Law

First Circuit Decides Qualified Federal Law Enforcement Privilege Outweighs State's Prerogative to Enforce Criminal Code - Puerto Rico v. United States, 490 F.3d 50 (1st Cir. 2007)

Commercial and Consumer Credit Law

Class Action Remedy Unavailable in First Circuit for Plaintiffs Seeking Recission Under Truth in Lending Act - McKenna v. First Horizon Home Loan Corp., 475 F.3d 418 (1st Cir. 2007)

First Circuit Properly Construes Holder in Due Course Doctrine Under Massachusetts Law - Jelmoli Holding, Inc. v. Raymond James Financial Services, Inc., 470 F.3d 14 (1st Cir. 2006)

Constitutional Law

Diminished Expectations of Privacy and the Human Genome: Circuits Align on Mandatory DNA Profiling of Convicted Felon - United States v. Weikert, 504 F.3d 1 (1st Cir. 2007)

First Circuit Requires Minimal Commercial Effect for RICO Violations Based on Local Noneconmic Activity - United States v. Nascimento, 491 F.3d 25 (1st Cir. 2007), petition for cert. filed, No. 07-7925 (U.S. Nov. 26, 2007)

First Circuit Vacates Preemption Finding Relating to Three Massachusetts Oil Spill Prevention Act Provisions - United States v. Massachusetts, 493 F.3d 1 (1st Cir. 2007)

First Circuit Questions Correctional Facility's Blanket Ban on Inmate Preaching - Spratt v. Rhode Island Department of Corrections, 482 F.3d 33 (1st Cir. 2007)

Criminal Law

First Circuit Upholds Constitutionality of Juvenile Convictions as Predicate Offenses Under the Armed Career Criminal Act - United States v. Matthews, 498 F.3d 25 (1st Cir. 2007)

Derivative Entrapment Defense Applies When Government Agent Acts Through Unsuspecting Middleman to Induce Targeted Defendant - United States v. Luisi, 482 F.3d 43 (1st Cir. 2007)

First Circuit Allows Guilty Plea for Misprison to Stand Under Plain Error Review - United States v. Caraballo-Rodriguez, 480 F.3d 62 (1st Cir. 2007), cert. denied, 128 S. Ct. 489 (2007)

First Circuit Holds Federal Courts Lack Jurisdiction to Expunge Criminal Records on Equitable Grounds - United States v. Coloian, 480 F.3d 47 (1st Cir. 2007), cert. denied, 128 S. Ct. 377 (2007)

Federal Jurisprudence

The First Circuit Construes Plurality Opinions to Expand the Reach of the Clean Water Act - United States v. Johnson, 467 F.3d 56 (1st Cir. 2006), cert. denied, 128 S. Ct. 375 (2007)

Labor and Employment Law

Uncertainty Over Burden of Proof for Mixed Motive Employee Discharge - Hospital Cristo Redentor, Inc. v. NLRB, 488 F.3d 513 (1st Cir. 2007)

A Deferential Standard for Administrators Within a Statute Meant to Protect Workers - Bard v. Boston Shipping Association, 471 F.3d 229 (1st Cir. 2006)

First Circuit Upholds Department of Labor's Broad Construction of the FMLA - Rucker v. Lee Holding Co., 471 F.3d 6 (1st Cir. 2006)

Securities Law

First Circuit Limits Scope of "Safe Harbor" Disclosure Loophole Under Misappropriation Theory of Insider Trading - SEC v. Rocklage, 470 F.3d 1 (1st Cir. 2006)