DISCLAIMER:  The following unofficial case summaries are prepared by the clerk's office
                        as a courtesy to the reader. They are not part of the opinion of the court.
151682P.pdf   02/28/2017  Minnesota Voters Alliance  v.  Joe Mansky
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  15-1682
                          and No:  15-1741
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - Minneapolis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Benton, Author, with Riley, Chief Judge, and Loken, Circuit 
   Judges] 
   Civil case - Minnesota Election Laws. Several organizations and 
   individuals challenge Minnesota Statute Section 211B.11 which prohibits 
   the wearing of political insignia at a polling place. For the court's 
   earlier opinion reversing dismissal of the groups' as-applied First 
   Amendment claim, see Minnesota Majority v. Mansky, 708 F.3d 1051 (8th Cir. 
   2013). The statute and the state's policy implementing it are viewpoint 
   neutral and facially reasonable,and application of the policy to persons 
   wearing Tea Party apparel was reasonable because the Tea party has 
   recognizable political views; defendants' summary judgment on plaintiffs' 
   First Amendment claims is affirmed. 
  
153792U.pdf   02/28/2017  United States  v.  Judith Renfrow
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  15-3792
   U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska - Omaha   
   [UNPUBLISHED] [Per Curiam - Before Colloton, Beam and Gruender, Circuit 
   Judges] 
   Criminal case - Sentencing. The district court did not err in denying 
   defendant's motion for a sentence reduction under Amendment 782 based on 
   its conclusion that her sentence was not based on the Guidelines because 
   her Rule 11(c)(1)(C) plea agreement made no reference to the Guidelines 
   range and contained no information about how any Guidelines range may have 
   been calculated. 
  
161403P.pdf   02/28/2017  United States  v.  Randy Beltramea
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  16-1403
   U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Cedar Rapids   
   [PUBLISHED] [Beam, Author, with Loken and Benton, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Forfeiture. For the court's earlier opinion in the matter 
   affirming defendant's sentence but remanding the matter for further 
   proceedings regarding forfeiture, see U.S. v. Beltramea, 785 F.3d 287 (8th 
   Cir. 2015). on remand, the evidence satisfied the requisite nexus between 
   defendant's money-laundering convictions and the real property involved in 
   the forfeiture proceedings, and the order forfeiting the entirety of a 
   land development project is affirmed. 
  
162014U.pdf   02/28/2017  Lester Sanchez-Pau  v.  Jefferson B. Sessions, III
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  16-2014
   Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals   
   [UNPUBLISHED] [Per Curiam - Before Wollman, Murphy and Gruender, Circuit 
   Judges] 
   Petition for review - Immigration. Substantial evidence supported the IJ's 
   adverse credibility findings; petitioner did not show he was entitled to 
   withholding of removal and the petition for review of the order denying 
   withholding of removal is denied.