Cases

Thomas H. Newton, Judge Ms. Lucille Mandacina appeals an order of the Labor & Industrial Relations Commission affirming an appeals tribunal ruling denying her unemployment compensation benefits because she had voluntarily left work without good cause attributable to the work or the employer. Ms. Mandacina challenges the sufficiency of *100the evidence to support a

DISSENT COLE, Chief Judge, dissenting. Today a grim game of “prosecutor may hide, defendant must seek” plays out in the federal courts. Genesis Hill was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in Hamilton County, Ohio. At nearly every chance since, in both state and federal postconviction proceedings, Hill has maintained that the state withheld favorable evidence in violation of Bra

RILEY, Circuit Judge. A jury convicted John A. Mandacina (Mandacina) of conspiracy, retaliating against an informant, interstate murder-for-hire, and use of a firearm during a crime of violence. The district court sentenced Mandacina to life imprisonment. We affirmed. United States v. McGuire, 45 F.3d 1177 (8th Cir.1995). Mandacina

JOHN R. GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge. Patrick H. McGuire and John A. Mandaci-na appeal their convictions of conspiring to retaliate against an informant, 18 U.S.C. § 371 (1988), retaliating against an informant, 18 U.S.C. § 1513(a) (1988), using interstate commerce in the commission of the retaliation, 18 U.S.C. § 1958 (1988 & Supp. V 1993), and using a firearm in the commission of the two substantive offenses, 18 U.S.

United States Court of Appeals For the First Circuit No. 06-1826 UNIVERSAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, INC.; MICHAEL J. ZWEBNER, Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. LYCOS, INC., D/B/A LYCOS NETWORK; TERRA NETWORKS, S.A.; ROBERTO VILLASENOR, JR., A/K/A the-worm06; JOHN DOE #2, A/K/A no-insiders; ROBERTO VILLASENOR, JR., A/K/A the-worm06A; JOHN DOE #4, A/K/A 651

430 F.Supp.2d 293 (2006) SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION, Plaintiff, v. Stephen J. TREADWAY and Kenneth W. Corba, Defendants. No. 04 Civ. 3464(VM). United States District Court, S.D. New York. May 9, 2006. *294 *295 *296 *29

LYNCH, Circuit Judge. Plaintiffs Universal Communication Systems, Inc. and its chief executive officer, *415Michael J. Zwebner, (collectively, “UCS”) brought suit, objecting to a series of allegedly false and defamatory postings made under pseudonymous screen names on an Internet message board operated by Ly-cos, Inc. UCS identified two of the screen names as having b

BURNS, District Judge. I am called upon today to sentence four men charged with violating the immigration laws of the United States.1 Because it is important — even vital — for judges to describe publicly the reasons for sentences they impose, I set forth my understanding of the situation in which these cases arose and the purposes I hope to serve by my sentencing decision.2

478 F.3d 413 UNIVERSAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, INC.; MICHAEL J. ZWEBNER, Plaintiffs, Appellants,v.LYCOS, INC., d/b/a Lycos Network; Terra Networks, S.A.; Roberto Villasenor, Jr., a/k/a the-worm06; John Doe #2, a/k/a no-insiders; Roberto Villasenor, Jr., a/k/a the-worm06A; John Doe # 4, a/k/a 65175R; John Doe # 5, a/k/a Henry-Johnson123; John Doe # 6, a/k/a quondo1; John Doe # 7, a/k/a Tobias95; John Doe # 8, a/k/a CrawleySmith, Defendants,