1. 1 st Circuit Court of Appeals By: Taylor Vance

2. Locations and Districts Located in Boston, Massachusetts Maine New Hampshire Puerto Rico Rhode Island

3. Meeting Times Most sittings are held in Boston, and they usually sit for one week most months of the year One week in July or August On week each in March and November in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico

4. Judges Chief judge is Sandra Lynch There are six active judges o Four of those are senior judges Circuit justice is Stephen Breyer

5. Chief and Circuit Judges Sandra Lynch (Chief judge) [Clinton] Juan R. Torruella (Circuit judge) [Reagan] Jerrefy R. Howard (Circuit judge) [G.W. Bush] Ojetta Rogeriee (Circuit judge) [Obama] William J. Kayatta Jr. (Circuit judge) [Obama]

6. Senior Judges Levin H. Campbell [Nixon] Bruce M. Selya [Reagan] Conrad K. Cyr [G.H.W. Bush] Michael Boudin [G.H.W. Bush] Norman H Stahl [G.H.W. Bush] Kermit Lopez [Clinton]

7. Major Cases West v. Randall (1820): Dispute over estate of William West, a revolutionary war general, who died in 1814. The dispute was over who must be made parties to the lawsuit. Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England (2006): Facial challenge to New Hampshire’s parental notification abortion law. Wanted to protect the pregnant minor. Law was unconstitutional and an injunction against its enforcement was proper. Supreme court vacated this judgment and remanded the case.

8. Major Cases Cont’d. Cook v. Gates (2008): “Don’t ask don’t tell” against due process and equal protection on 5 th and 1 st amendments. Supreme court decision held that sexual orientation is a suspect or quasi-suspect classification. Doe v. Bush (2003): Challenging the constitutionality of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. A group of soldiers, parents of soldiers, and members of congress claimed that the invasion of Iraq was unconstitutional. Case was dismissed February 24, 2003.

9. Major Cases Cont’d. Rogers v. Okin (1975): Stated that a mental patient, committed to a state psychiatric facility and assumed to be competent, has the right to make treatment decisions in non emergency conditions. Decision was that a court must hold a full evidentiary hearing to make a decision. Sampson v. Chanell (1940): Interpreted the application of the Erie Doctrine (Erie v. Tompkins) where diversity jurisdiction is invoked in a choice law situation, where a court in one state may be called upon to apply the laws of another state. Result: judgment was reversed and remanded.

10. Cases There are fourteen total cases that have been tried in this court system some of these include: o Campbell v. General Dynamics Govt. Sys. Corp. (2005) o Commissioner v. Boylston Market Association (1942) o Eastern Enterprises v. Apfel (1998) o Fraser v. Major League Soccer (2002) o Gill v. Office of Personal Management (2012) o Joint Tribal Council of The Passomaquoddy Tribe v. Morton (1975) o Massachusetts v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2012) o Mitsubishi Motors Corp. v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth Inc. (1985)

11. Sources Hairston, J. T. (n.d). Mixed Motive Cases: How to Meet the Burden of Proof Under Write Line. Labor Law Journal, 34(10), 663-666. NISBET B. WHAT CAN RICO NOT DO?: RICO AND THE NON-ECONOMIC INTRASTATE ENTERPRISE THAT PERPETRATES ONLY NON-ECONOMIC RACKETEERING ACTIVITY. Journal Of Criminal Law & Criminology [serial online]. Spring2009 2009;99(2):509-539. Available from: SocINDEX with Full Text, Ipswich, MA. Accessed March 19, 2014. http://www.ca1.uscourts.gov