United States Second Circuit - April 2012 Opinion Summaries

US v. Litwok

Criminal Law & Procedure, Tax Law
In a prosecution on one count of mail fraud and three counts of tax evasion relating to calendar years 1995 through 1997: 1) convictions on counts of...

US v. Ramos

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing, Immigration Law
In a prosecution for illegally transporting aliens within the United States, assisting an inadmissible alien in entering the US, and illegally being...

Morris v. Holder

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Immigration Law
In removal proceedings against a national of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines who had been convicted of second-degree assault in violation of New York...

Higgins v. Holder

Administrative Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Immigration Law
In removal proceedings against a Jamaican national who had been convicted for witness tampering under Connecticut General Statutes section 53a-151, a...

US v. Zangari

Securities Law, White Collar Crime, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
In a prosecution of a securities broker for conspiracy to violate the Travel Act, which resulted in a conviction and sentence that included a...

Terranova v. New York

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
In a suit under 42 USC section 1983 for violation of the appellants' Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable seizure through the use of...

Absolute Activist Value Master Fund Ltd v. Ficeto

International Law, Securities Law
In a suit by nine Cayman Islands hedge funds alleging fraudulent trading of securities by their investment managers, the district court's judgment is:...

US v. Aleynikov

Criminal Law & Procedure, Cyberspace Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a prosecution of a former Goldman Sachs employee for stealing and transferring some of the proprietary computer source code used in Goldman's high...

In re Quigley Company, Inc.

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure
On appeal of a bankruptcy court order holding that an injunction issued in a corporation's bankruptcy proceedings applied to stay certain suits...

Stevens v. Miller

Civil Procedure, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
A district court's denial of the state's Rule 60(b)(6) motion to vacate a grant of habeas relief is affirmed, where the motion was nothing more than...