of Professional Journalists, 1989 Judge of the Year, Utah State Bar, 1992 Utah Minority Bar Association Award, 1995 Creighton University Alumni Achievement Citation, 1997 Committees and commissions Utah Sentencing Commission, 1993–1995, Member Third District Committee on Court Reorganization, 1992–1995, Chair Judicial Council Task Force on Alternative Dispute Resolution, 1986–1988, Member Utah Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Rules of Civil Procedure, 1984–1995, Member Salt Lake County Bar Association, 1989–1992, Member, Executive Committee Legislative Advisory Committee on Child Support Guidelines, Member, 1987–1995; Chair, 1993-1994 Professional associations and memberships Sutherland Inns of Court II, 1990–1991, President Board of District Court Judges, 1989–1990, Member American Bar Association, 1973–Present, Member Utah State Bar, 1973–Present, Member Wyoming State Bar Association, 1972–Present, Member Selected opinions and cases presided over Cases presided over United States of America v. Timothy James McVeigh, 153 F.3d 1166 (10th Cir. 1998) Murphy did not author this opinion, but sat on the panel of judges who heard the appeal. The Tenth District Court of Appeals upheld McVeigh's conviction and sentence. The full opinion can be found here Opinions Yes on Term Limits v. Savage, 550 F.3d 1023 (10th Cir. 2008) Held: Oklahoma's ban on non-resident petition circulators violates the First Amendment. This case was significant because it allows citizens to seek help from non-resident workers to petition the government. Without this resource, many citizens would find it difficult to make change. Alto Eldorado Partnership v. County of Santa Fe, 634 F.3d 1170 (10th Cir. 2011) Held: Property developer's takings claim was not ripe because developer had not utilized available state procedures to seek just compensation. United States v. McCane, 573 F.3d 1037 (10th Cir. 2009) Held: The good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule applies to a search justified under the settled case law of a United States Court of Appeals, even if the search is rendered unconstitutional by a subsequent Supreme Court decision. In re Qwest Communications International, Inc., 450 F.3d 1179 (10th Cir. 2006) Held: Corporation waived attorney-client privilege and work-product doctrine, as to third-party civil litigants, by releasing privileged materials to federal agencies in the course of the agencies' investigation of the corporation. Prison Legal News v. Executive Office for United States Attorneys, 628 F.3d 1243 (10th Cir. 2011) Held: The Government can invoke the Freedom of Information Act's personal privacy exemption even though it previously disclosed the records during a public trial. O'Connor v. Washburn University, 416 F.3d 1216 (10th