United States Second Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Green Pty. of Conn. v. Garfield

Government Law, Constitutional Law, Elections
In a First Amendment challenge to Connecticut's Campaign Finance Reform Act (CFRA), summary judgment for defendants is affirmed in part where the...

Fensterstock v. Educ. Fin. Ptnrs.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
In an action claiming defendants engaged in fraudulent and deceptive practices in connection with the solicitation, consolidation, and servicing of...

District Lodge 26 v. United Techs. Corp.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
In an action claiming that defendant's announced plans to close two facilities in Connecticut and move the work performed at those facilities outside...

Ruston v. Town Bd.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Public Utilities
In a "class of one" equal protection action by property owners, who were denied sewer hookups for their proposed subdivision, against a village, the...

Natural Resources Def. Council v. US Dep't of Agric.

Administrative Law, Agriculture, Commercial Law, Environmental Law, International Trade
In an action claiming that the Department of Agriculture failed to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act and the Plant Protection Act when...

US v. Castello

Sentencing, White Collar Crime, Asset Forfeiture, Criminal Law & Procedure
A revised forfeiture order against defendant based on his conviction for failing to file Currency Transaction Reports in the course of running his...

US v. Woltmann

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
In a tax fraud prosecution, the government's motion to dismiss defendant's appeal from his sentence is denied, and the sentence is vacated, where the...

In re Novartis Wage & Hour Litig.

Administrative Law, Class Actions, Drugs & Biotech, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action by pharmaceutical company salespersons for overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), summary judgment for defendant is...

Costa v. Holder

Administrative Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Immigration Law
In a petition for review of an order of the BIA affirming the decision of an Immigration Judge that denied petitioner's motion to terminate and...

College Std. Magazine v. Student Ass'n of the State Univ. of NY

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Law
In a facial challenge under the First Amendment to a policy pursuant to which defendant university distributed funds to student groups, defendants'...