Second Circuit: United States v. Lobo

Witness assertion, when credited, suffices to establish that drugs made it to US markets.

Aggravating role sentence increase upheld.

"http://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/isysquery/1aad3dd4-e94a-4e4b-a3b1-6cd4b00c0df9/1/doc/17-2894_opn.pdf#xml=http://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/isysquery/1aad3dd4-e94a-4e4b-a3b1-6cd4b00c0df9/1/hilite/

First Circuit: US v. Vallellanes-Rosa

As the court was not compelled to vary downward for the federal carjacking count, the sentence was substantively reasonable; as the relevant factors were mentioned during the sentencing, the sentence was procedurally reasonable.

http://media.ca1.uscourts.gov/pdf.opinions/17-1541P-01A.pdf

Other precedential cases from today

http://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/18a0208p-06.pdf

http://media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/rssExec.pl?Submit=Display&Path=Y2018/D09-19/C:17-1080:J:Sykes:aut:T:fnOp:N:2220907:S:0

http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2018/09/19/14-71768.pdf

http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2018/09/19/12-55911.pdf

http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2018/09/19/16-73801.pdf

http://media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/files/201713611.pdf

http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/opinions-orders/18-1101.Opinion.9-19-2018.pdf

-CB

Sixth Circuit: Jesse Busk v. Integrity Staffing Solutions

Door to door utility canvassers are subject to the travelling salesman exception to the statute, since although the utility has the final power to ratify the sale or not , gaining the consent of the customer is the work of the salesman.

Although the portal-to-portal act puts some security screening time outside the Labor act's compensation mechanism, state law might cover the claim, since state law does not mimic the exception, and work need not involve exertion.

http://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/18a0207p-06.pdf