United States Second Circuit - Opinion Summaries

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...

Disability Advocates, Inc. v. New York Coalition for Quality Assisted Living, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Health Law
In a suit brought by a private nonprofit organization contracted to provide services to New York State's protection and advocacy system under the...

Enmon v. Prospect Capital Corp.

Attorney's Fees, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Sanctions
In a case in which a law firm was sanctioned for acting in bad faith and engaging in frivolous and vexatious litigation by opposing an arbitration,...

Ahlers v. Rabinowitz

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In a suit under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 brought by a plaintiff who had been civilly committed after his release from prison, alleging that psychiatric...

US v. Scott

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
A conviction for distributing, and possessing with the intent to distribute, a controlled substance is vacated and the case remanded for a new trial,...

Bessemer Trust Company, N.A. v. Branin

Securities Law, Commercial Law, Contracts
In a suit alleging improper solicitation of a client's account where that account and its associated "good will" had earlier been transferred to the...

Viacom Int’l, Inc. v. YouTube, Inc.

Cyberspace Law, Entertainment Law, Intellectual Property, Copyright, Media Law
In a copyright infringement suit against YouTube, the district court's judgment in favor of YouTube is: 1) affirmed in part, where the district court...

Anderson News, L.L.C. v. American Media, Inc.

Media Law, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Procedure
In a suit alleging that national magazine publishers and their distribution representatives conspired to drive a wholesaler out of the single-copy...

US v. Pitera

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
The district court's denial of a prisoner's motion to compel postconviction DNA testing of six items pursuant to the Innocence Protection Act is...