United States Second Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Konowaloff v. Metropolitan Museum of Art

Entertainment Law, Injury & Tort Law, International Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In action against defendant museum for its acquisition, possession, display, and retention of a painting confiscated by the Russian revolutionary...

Sousa v. Marquez

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
In 1983 action alleging a violation of a constitutional right to access to the courts based on a state governmental official's purported concealment...

Ment Bros. Iron Works Co. v. Interstate Fire & Casualty Co.

Commercial Law, Construction, Contracts, Insurance Law
In action for declaratory judgment where policyholder, a welding subcontractor, sought a declaration that its insurer was obligated to defend and...

Gutierrez v. Smith

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
In appeal from the denial of defendant's writ of habeas corpus following conviction for depraved indifference murder, the judgment is affirmed, where:...

US v. Daley

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing, Immigration Law
In appeal from denial of defendant's motion to dismiss the indictment for illegal reentry after deportation and subsequent conviction, judgment is...

MAN Ferrostaal, Inc. v. M/V Akili

International Law, International Trade, Remedies, Admiralty, Commercial Law
In action for damage to cargo shipped aboard defendant-vessel, judgment holding defendant-vessel liable in rem is affirmed, where: 1) a vessel's in...

US v. Ferguson

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
In appeal from conviction of possessing a firearm after having been convicted of a felony, the judgment is affirmed, where: 1) notwithstanding the...

US v. Torres

Asset Forfeiture, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
In appeal from conviction of theft of government property that included orders of forfeiture and restitution, judgment is affirmed, where: 1) because...

US v. Murphy

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
In government's appeal from district court's order suppressing both the physical evidence seized during the car search and the defendants' post-arrest...

Zeno v. Pine Plains Cent. Sch. Dist.

Civil Rights, Education Law, Remedies
In plaintiff's civil rights suit against a school district (District), claiming that the District was deliberately indifferent to his harassment from...