Jane Louise Kelly

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit circuit Appointed by Barack Obama (Democratic) 29 signed orders read

Signed rulings

A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.

Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region v. Parson
19-2882, 19-3134 · 2021-06-09
Appeal (appellant) Denied

“Missouri Governor Michael L. Parson and various other state officials (collectively, Missouri) appeal the district court's grant of a preliminary injunction enjoining the enforcement of several abortion-related provisions of Missouri House Bill 126 (HB 126). We affirm.”

Missouri State Conference of the NAACP v. Ferguson-Florissant School District
16-4511 · 2018-07-03
Appeal (appellant) Denied

“The district court found a section 2 violation after engaging in the requisite precondition analysis and conducting a thorough totality-of-the-circumstances balancing. We affirm.”

Dindinger v. Allsteel, Inc.
16-1305 · 2017-04-03
Appeal (appellant) Denied

“We remand the issue of costs to the district court to determine whether it is the prevailing practice in Iowa to bill clients separately for Westlaw research, and affirm in all other respects.”

Jerry Friedman v. Kelly Farmer
14-2575 · 2015-06-11
Appeal (appellant) Denied

“The district court granted summary judgment in favor of the defendants, and Friedman appeals. We affirm the judgment.”

American Family Mutual Ins. v. Steven G. Graham
14-2174 · 2015-07-07
Appeal (appellant) Denied

“Graham... appeal[s] the denial of Graham's post-trial motions and the district court's enforcement of a stipulated-damages clause... We affirm the judgment.”

Mountain Home Flight Service, Inc. v. Baxter County
12-3000 · 2014-07-15
Appeal (appellant) Denied

“Having jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, we affirm.”

Nathan McGuire v. Independent School District No. 833
16-2685 · 2017-07-24
Appeal (appellant) Denied

“We affirm, finding that the 2013 amendment to Minnesota Statute § 122A.33 does not grant McGuire a property interest in the renewal of his coaching contract.”

United States v. Sheldon Tree Top
18-1816 · 2019-07-26
Appeal (appellant) Granted

“These statutes, in turn, require that a restitution award be 'limited to the victim's provable actual loss,' which the government must prove by a preponderance of the evidence.”

Eugene Newcombe v. United States
18-1681 · 2019-08-09
Appeal (appellant) Denied

“The district court dismissed Newcombe's claim for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction. Newcombe appeals, and we affirm.”

Chad Menter Hill v. James L. Snyder
17-3572 · 2019-03-29
Appeal (appellant) Denied

“Upon careful consideration, we affirm the order of the district court.”

United States v. Bryan Binkholder
17-2688 · 2018-11-20
Appeal (appellant) Denied

“Binkholder appeals the district court's determination under § 2B1.1 and several other issues arising from the resentencing. We affirm.”

United States v. Edward Merritt
18-2500 · 2019-08-16
Appeal (appellant) Denied

“Merritt appeals his sentence, arguing that his prior drug conspiracy conviction is not a controlled substance offense under the Guidelines.”

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