United States Second Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Picard v. Fairfield Greenwich

Bankruptcy Law, Injury & Tort Law, Securities Law
Judgment of the district court dismissing the trustee's claims for declaratory and injunctive relief to block the settlement of three lawsuits brought...

US v. Ledee

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
The district court's grant of the government's motion to close the courtroom to all persons not directly involved in defendant's trial during a child...

Nielsen v. AECOM Technology Corporation

Administrative Law, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Labor & Employment Law
The district court's order granting defendants' motion to dismiss a Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower retaliation suit is affirmed, where: 1) the district...

Paloka v. Holder

Immigration Law
Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) dismissing petitioner's application for asylum is remanded, where: 1) petitioner, a young Albanian...

US ex rel. Polansky v. Pfizer

Civil Procedure, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
The appeal from the district court's dismissal of plaintiff's claims against defendant for alleged violations of the federal False Claims Act and...

Sompo Japan v. Norfolk So. Railway

Commercial Law, Contracts, Insurance Law, Transportation
In consolidated appeals, in which the plaintiff-subrogees challenged the dismissal of certain claims against defendant-railways and found that...

In re: Thelen LLP

Bankruptcy Law, Corporation & Enterprise Law
The district court's decision granting defendant's motion for judgment on the pleadings, which concluded that under New York law, the "unfinished...

In Re: Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.

Bankruptcy Law, Contracts, Securities Law
In a dispute over the entitlement to certain assets between the trustee of a liquidating broker-dealer and the purchaser of the distressed company's...

Acharya v. Holder

Immigration Law
A petition for review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals dismissing an appeal from an oral decision of the Immigration Judge, which...

1256 Hertel Avenue Associates v. Calloway

Bankruptcy Law, Constitutional Law, Judgement Enforcement, Property Law & Real Estate
The 2005 amendment to N.Y. C.P.L.R. 5206, which increased New York's homestead exemption from $10,000 to $50,000, applies to a judgment lien obtained...