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United States Second Circuit - May 2012 Opinion Summaries

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Pope v. County of Albany
United States Second Circuit
Civil Procedure, Elections, Government Law 
In a case in which minority voters sought a preliminary injunction of the 2011 elections for the Albany County Legislature for alleged redistricting...
05/29/2012 11-3439
USAA Casualty Insurance Co. v. Permanent Mission of the Republic of Namibia
United States Second Circuit
Civil Procedure, Construction, Injury & Tort Law, International Law 
In a tort suit against an instrumentality of the Republic of Namibia stemming from construction work on its New York chancery building, a district...
05/25/2012 10-4892
Panther Partners Inc. v. Ikanos Communications, Inc.
United States Second Circuit
Civil Procedure, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Securities Law 
In a case alleging violations of sections 11, 12(a)(2), and 15 of the Securities Act of 1933, an order denying leave to amend the complaint is...
05/25/2012 11-63
Meilleur v. Strong
United States Second Circuit
Civil Procedure 
In a suit brought pro se in which the district court granted the plaintiff leave to proceed in forma pauperis, the district court's dismissal of a...
05/24/2012 11-2729
Elfgeeh v. US
United States Second Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus 
Denial of a petition for habeas corpus is affirmed, where the appellant's representation was not per se ineffective under the Sixth Amendment, as he...
05/23/2012 10-4498
US v. Carthen
United States Second Circuit
Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence 
Revocation of the appellant's supervised release is affirmed, where: 1) under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32.1, good cause existed to allow the...
05/23/2012 10-4817
ASCAP v. MobiTV, Inc.
United States Second Circuit
Communications Law, Intellectual Property, Copyright, Media Law 
In a dispute over the royalty owed for a blanket public performance license for music in the ASCAP repertory that was embodied in television and radio...
05/22/2012 10-3161
Lyons v. Lancer Insurance Co.
United States Second Circuit
Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Transportation 
In an action seeking a declaration that federal law required an insurer to satisfy an unpaid judgment entered in favor of the plaintiffs in a...
05/21/2012 10-4569
ACLU v. Dep’t of Justice
United States Second Circuit
Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law 
A district court judgment with respect to government decisions to withhold certain information from FOIA request responses is: 1) reversed in part, as...
05/21/2012 10-4290
Galloway v. Town of Greece
United States Second Circuit
Constitutional Law, Government Law 
In a suit asserting that aspects of a town's practice of beginning town board meetings with a prayer violated the Establishment Clause, summary...
05/17/2012 10-3635

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