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PHILIP CHARVAT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. GVNMICHIGAN, INC., Defendant-Appellee. |
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Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Southern District of Ohio at Columbus.
No. 06-00983—Algenon L. Marbley, District Judge.
Argued: January 20, 2009
Decided and Filed: April 9, 2009
Before: MOORE, CLAY, and KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judges.
KAREN NELSON MOORE, Circuit Judge. Plaintiff-Appellant Philip Charvat appeals the district court’s grant of partial summary judgment to Defendant-Appellee GVN Michigan, Inc. (“GVN”) and subsequent dismissal for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction. After GVN and its agents placed ten telemarketing calls to Charvat’s residence, Charvat filed a complaint in the district court asserting 186 claims against GVN based on alleged violations of the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (“TCPA”), 47 U.S.C. § 227, the Ohio Consumer Sales Practices Act (“CSPA”), Ohio Rev. Code §§ 1345.01–1345.13, and various other Ohio statutes and regulations. The district court found that Charvat could not recover statutory damages under the TCPA or the CSPA based on alleged violations occurring in the first phone call made by GVN and that Charvat was limited under both the TCPA and the CSPA to recovery of statutory damages on a per-call basis rather than per violation. Noting that the TCPA does not provide for federal-question jurisdiction, the district court found that these limitations on damages reduced the amount in controversy below $75,000 and dismissed Charvat’s case for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction. On appeal, Charvat argues that the district court erred by (1) dismissing all of Charvat’s claims for violations of the TCPA and the CSPA committed during the first call, (2) holding that damages for violations of the TCPA must be calculated on a per-call, rather than a per-violation, basis, (3) holding that damages for violations of the CSPA must be calculated on a per-call, rather than a per-violation, basis, and (4) dismissing Charvat’s action for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction. Although we believe that the district court erred in finding that Charvat could not collect under the TCPA for violations occurring in the first telephone call, we conclude that the district court correctly found that the TCPA damages are available on only a per-call basis. Because Charvat did not meet the amount-incontroversy requirement for diversity jurisdiction, we AFFIRM the district court’s judgment dismissing the case for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction.
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. JULIO CESAR GARCIA-ROBLES, Defendant-Appellant. |
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Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Eastern District of Michigan at Detroit.
No. 07-20165—Lawrence P. Zatkoff, District Judge.
Argued: March 12, 2009
Decided and Filed: April 9, 2009
Before: MOORE and WHITE, Circuit Judges; OLIVER, District Judge.
KAREN NELSON MOORE, Circuit Judge. In June 2007, Julio Cesar Garcia- Robles (“Garcia-Robles”) pleaded guilty to unlawful re-entry of an alien deported after an aggravated felony conviction. The district court and the parties agreed that Garcia- Robles’s sentencing guidelines range was 30 to 37 months of incarceration. At sentencing, Garcia-Robles asked for a downward variance to a sentence of 24 months of incarceration. The government asked that the court impose a sentence within the guidelines range. The district court determined that, because of the severity of the offense and the fact that Garcia-Robles had previously returned to the United States after deportation, an upward variance was necessary. The district court sentenced Garcia- Robles to 96 months of incarceration. Garcia-Robles appeals this sentence and argues that the district court failed to give proper notice of this upward variance and that the sentence imposed was procedurally and substantively unreasonable.
We VACATE Garcia-Robles’s sentence as procedurally unreasonable and REMAND for resentencing.
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JEFFREY L. GIBSON, Petitioner, v. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION, Respondent. |
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On Petition for Review of an Order of the
Securities and Exchange Commission.
No. 3-12323.
Submitted: January 23, 2009
Decided and Filed: March 11, 2009
Before: GUY, CLAY, and COOK, Circuit Judges.
CLAY, Circuit Judge. Jeffrey L. Gibson seeks review of the February 4, 2008 order of the Securities and Exchange Commission, which affirmed the administrative law judge’s issuance of a lifetime bar precluding Gibson from associating with any broker or dealer pursuant to § 15(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and from associating with any investment adviser pursuant to § 203(f) of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. For the reasons that follow, we DENY Gibson’s petition for review.