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CIVIL PROCEDURE, GOVERNMENT LAW, INJURY AND TORT
LAW
Jaskolski
v. Gonzales, No. 06-3508
In a suit where defendants
accused of false prosecution for insurance fraud sought
classification as federal employees for purposes of federal
jurisdiction, defendants' appeal of the district court's denial of
federal employee status is dismissed for lack of jurisdiction where
a statute, as interpreted in Osborn v. Haley, 127 S. Ct. 881 (2007),
that prohibits review of an order remanding a case back to the state
court from which it was removed rendered the appeal unreviewable. Read
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CRIMINAL LAW & PROCEDURE, GOVERNMENT LAW, LABOR &
EMPLOYMENT LAW
US
v. Thompson, No. 06-3676
In a case against a section
chief in Wisconsin's Bureau of Procurement alleging improper
steering of a contract for political reasons, the conviction is
reversed where there was no indication that defendant's motives were
corrupt for purposes of 18 U.S.C. section 666, and neither an
increase in salary for doing what one's superiors deem a good job,
nor a feeling of increased job security, is a "private benefit" for
the purposes of 18 U.S.C. section 1341. Read
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