for the Eighth Circuit

111049P.pdf   11/06/2012  Ralph Armstrong  v.  Ray Hobbs
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  11-1049
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Little Rock   
   [PUBLISHED] [Melloy, Author, with Smith and Benton, Circuit Judges]
   Prisoner case - habeas. Arkansas criminal rule which excludes
   evidence tending to show that someone other than the defendant
   committed the crime charged unless that evidence points directly to the
   guilt of the third party is constitutionally permissible under Holmes v.
   South Carolina, 547 U.S. 319 (2006) as the evidence is excluded based
   on the strength of the link between the evidence and the crime; other
   issues were outside the scope of he certificate of appealability issued in
   the case.
  
112991P.pdf   11/06/2012  Steven Gerhardson  v.  Gopher News Company
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  11-2991
                          and No:  11-3089
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - Minneapolis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Riley, Author, with Smith and Colloton, Circuit Judges]
   Civil case - Labor law. The statute of limitations on the drivers' claims
   had run and there were no grounds for equitable tolling; district court did
   not err in finding Gopher News' crossclaims against the union were
   preempted under the National Labor Relations Act. Judge Colloton,
   concurring in part, and dissenting in part.
  
113050P.pdf   11/06/2012  Joseph H. Whitney  v.  The Guys, Inc.
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  11-3050
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - Minneapolis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Melloy, Author, with Melloy and Smith, Circuit Judges]
   Civil case - Contracts. District court did not err in applying Delaware
   law to determine that plaintiff's contract claims were untimely; dismissal
   of pseudo-contractual claims was proper under the Delaware statute of
   limitations; plaintiff alleged plausible shareholder claims, and the
   district court erred in dismissing that set of claims.
  
113830P.pdf   11/06/2012  United States  v.  Willie Jones
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  11-3830
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City   
   [PUBLISHED] [Shepherd, Author, with Loken, Circuit Judge, and
   Gerrard, District Judge]
   Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. No error in imposing a
   career offender enhancement under Guidelines 4B1.1 as the convictions
   defendant contended were part of a single offense were separate offenses
   for sentencing purposes; sentence was not substantively unreasonable; no
   error in denying defendant's motion to withdraw his guilty plea.
  
121550U.pdf   11/06/2012  United States  v.  Robert Rutan
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  12-1550
                          and No:  12-1551
                          and No:  12-1552
   U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Cedar Rapids   
   [UNPUBLISHED] [Per Curiam - Before Bye, Gruender and Benton,
   Circuit Judges]
   Criminal case - Criminal law. Anders case. Appeal waiver enforced as
   to defendant's challenge to validity of the guilty plea; the district court
   did not err in making defendant's three prison terms consecutive.
  
121988U.pdf   11/06/2012  United States  v.  Mark Hopkins
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  12-1988
   U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota - Rapid City   
   [UNPUBLISHED] [Per Curiam - Before Bye, Gruender, and Benton,
   Circuit Judges]
   Criminal case - Sentencing. Anders case. District court committed no
   procedural error and imposed a substantively reasonable sentence.
  
122270U.pdf   11/06/2012  United States  v.  Ronald Hearn
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  12-2270
   U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Davenport   
   [UNPUBLISHED] [Per Curiam - Before Wollman, Melloy and
   Shepherd, Circuit Judges]
   Criminal case - Sentencing. Anders case. District court did not commit
   any significant procedural error and the sentence imposed was
   substantively reasonable.