United States Second Circuit - February 2012 Opinion Summaries

In re Coudert Bros. LLP

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Legal Malpractice
In a law firm's bankruptcy proceedings in federal district court in New York, in which a corporation filed a claim based on a pending legal...

Raedle v. Credit Agricole Indosuez

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit by a financial analyst against his former employer and his supervisor at that firm for tortious interference with a job offer from another...

Zheng v. Holder

Administrative Law, Immigration Law
On petition for review of BIA decision affirming an immigration judge's finding that the petitioner had filed a frivolous asylum application, the...

BlackRock Financial Management Inc. v. The Segregated Account of Ambac Assurance Corp.

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Corp. Governance, Securities Law
In a New York state Article 77 proceeding brought by a bank to confirm that it had the authority to enter into a settlement under governing trust...

Guamanrrigra v. Holder

Administrative Law, Immigration Law
On petition for review of a BIA decision affirming an immigration judge's denial of the petitioner's application for cancellation of removal, the...

Crocock v. Holder

Administrative Law, Immigration Law, Labor & Employment Law
In removal proceedings in which an Irish national was found ineligible for adjustment of status for having made a false claim to US citizenship on an...

US v. Moore

Criminal Law & Procedure, Constitutional Law
On appeal of the district court's denial of a motion to suppress a confession, judgment of conviction after plea is affirmed, where: 1) the...

US v. Banki

Banking Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, International Law
In a prosecution for offenses involving transfers of money from Iran, the convictions are: 1) affirmed as to two counts, where: a) the indictment was...

In re Parmalat Securities Litigation

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Securities Law
In bankruptcy proceedings in which state-law claims were asserted, the district court's decision not to abstain from hearing the claims is reversed...

Vega v. Walsh

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Evidence
The district court's denial of a petition for habeas corpus is affirmed, where: 1) evidence of the defendant's uncharged crimes and "Enforcer" tattoo...