Notable Opinions

This page contains links to opinions, orders, or memoranda designated by a judicial officer to be of public interest. Notification of newly posted opinions appear on the scrolling announcements on the Notable Cases main page. After 30 days, the notification will be removed but the opinion will remain in this section as an archive. The files are posted as they are received and are listed in ascending order of date posted.

The documents provided are exact duplicates of what has been filed and scanned in this court, and they are available for downloading and/or printing only in Portable Document Format (PDF). This format requires the user have Adobe Acrobat Reader, which can be downloaded free of charge from the Adobe Web site. More information about the case (the names of counsel, for example) can be obtained from the court’s public access system-- PACERNet.