United States Second Circuit - January 2008 Opinion Summaries

Yang v. Mukasey

Immigration Law
Petition for review challenging denial of applications for adjustment of status and waiver of inadmissibility, and ordering her removed is dismissed...

Wala v. Mukasey

Criminal Law & Procedure, Immigration Law
Order of removal on grounds petitioner's conviction for third-degree burglary, in violation of Conn. Gen. Stat. section 53a-103, was a crime involving...

Salamon v. Our Lady of Victory Hosp.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit alleging sexual harassment, summary judgment for defendants is vacated as a genuine issue of material fact exists regarding the plaintiff's...

Barco-Sandoval v. Gonzales

Administrative Law, Immigration Law
Petition for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals, which denied petitioner's application for cancellation of removal under section...

Diaz v. Kelly

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Denial of petitions for writs of habeas corpus are affirmed where although English language deficiency can warrant tolling of the AEDPA limitations...

Chao v. Gotham Registry

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law, Sanctions
Denial of a petition for adjudication of civil contempt for failure to abide by the terms of a consent judgment regarding overtime pay for nurses is...

Cave v. East Meadow Union Free Sch. Dist.

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Education Law, Health Law
Challenge to denial of motion for a preliminary injunction enjoining defendants from denying one plaintiff entry to his high school and any school...

Zaman v. Mukasey

Evidence, Immigration Law
Petition for review challenging denial of application for withholding of removal and relief pursuant to the Convention Against Torture is denied where...

US v. Day

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Order resentencing defendant following his guilty plea to conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute over one thousand kilograms...

NextG Networks of NY, Inc., v. City of NY

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Communications Law
In a case concerning whether defendant city has impeded plaintiff's access to the city telecommunications market by unlawfully denying plaintiff the...