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.
232389U.pdf   04/22/2024  United States  v.  Kermit Clay
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  23-2389
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Springfield    
   [UNPUBLISHED] [Per Curiam - Before, Benton, Arnold, and Stras, Circuit 
   Judges] 
   Criminal case - Sentencing. The district court did not abuse its 
   discretion in sentencing defendant to term of lifetime supervised release 
   after revoking his supervised release for a fourth time, given defendant's 
   initial conviction for receiving and distributing child pornography, his 
   lengthy history of supervised release violations, his display of classic 
   grooming behaviors, and his admitted attraction to underage girls. 
  
232780U.pdf   04/22/2024  United States  v.  Vincent Strauser
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  23-2780
   U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Eastern    
   [UNPUBLISHED] [Per Curiam - Before Shepherd, Stras, and Kobes, Circuit 
   Judges] 
   Criminal case - Sentencing. The district court erred in sentencing 
   defendant as a career offender because, although he received a 2-year 
   sentence for the offense at issue, the statute of conviction - Iowa Code 
   Sec. 124.410 - was not punishable by more than one year in prison. Because 
   the record does not make it clear that the district court would have 
   imposed the same sentence without the career offender classification, the 
   error was not harmless. We vacate defendant's sentence and remand to the 
   district court for resentencing. 
  
233151U.pdf   04/22/2024  Danny Huff  v.  Canterbury Park Holding Corp.
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  23-3151
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota    
   [UNPUBLISHED] [Per Curiam - Before Benton, Erickson, and Stras, Circuit 
   Judges] 
   Civil case - Federal Labor Standards Act. The district court's order 
   dismissing plaintiff's complaint against his former employer did not 
   discuss an unpaid wage claim under the Fair Labor Standard Act. The 
   district court should consider that claim in the first instance, and we 
   thus vacate the district court's dismissal order, remand for further 
   proceedings on plaintiff's federal wage claim, modify the dismissal of 
   plaintiff's other claims to be with prejudice, and affirm the dismissal of 
   those claims as modified. 
  
241149U.pdf   04/22/2024  United States  v.  Shannon Smalley
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  24-1149
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Springfield    
   [UNPUBLISHED] [Per Curiam - Before Benton, Grasz, and Stras, Circuit 
   Judges] 
   Criminal case - Sentencing. A new special condition of supervised release 
   prohibiting defendant from being self-employed or obtaining secondary 
   employment does not satisfy the applicable statutory and Guidelines 
   requirements, as the record does not show a connection between defendant's 
   secondary employment and his offense of conviction, or that the 
   restriction is necessary to protect the public. The special condition is 
   vacated, and the case is remanded.