Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals

South Dakota laws setting deadlines for petitions violate free speech guarantees of the U.S. Constitution. That’s according to an opinion released Friday, Feb. 17, by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Two federal inmates have lost their bid for a new trial for a 2017 carjacking that resulted in serious bodily injury.

An Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals opinion says a federal prosecutor did not have to prove that a 26-year-old defendant knew the girl he had sex with was 14 years old.

The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has determined that it does not have jurisdiction to declare that a South Dakota highway patrolman is exempt from a lawsuit over a speeding stop.

Christopher Truax was convicted of using the internet to entice a child to have sex. Truax is now appealing his conviction, saying the prosecutor improperly withheld the fact that Truax had read a book on how to emotionally influence a jury.

Lowell Lundstrom Junior claims he was cheated out of compensation for his role in recruiting farmers to sign onto a lawsuit against an international seed supplier. After the trial judge turned down his request for a new trial, Lundstrom appealed to the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, which heard arguments in Saint Paul.

South Dakota’s restrictions on paid petition circulators have been shot down by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.

A former Fall River County Sheriff’s deputy is appealing the length of his federal sentence to the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.

In his lawsuit, Sheck Mulbah said the stop was extremely traumatic for him, a Black man stopped at night by a white officer with an aggressive dog barking at him.

The state is appealing a U.S. District Court decision that a state law requiring initiated measure petitions to be delivered to the Secretary of State a full year before the general election violates petitioners’ free speech.