United States Second Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Niagara Mohawk Power Assn. v. Chevron U.S.A., Inc.

Environmental Law, Injury & Tort Law, Oil and Gas Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action to recover costs pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), summary judgment for...

Perkins v. Herbert

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Habeas Corpus
In a robbery prosecution, conditional grant of petitioner's habeas petition is reversed where: 1) the prosecution failed to meet its burden in showing...

Law Debenture Trust Co. v. Maverick Tube Corp.

Contracts, Corporation & Enterprise Law, M&A, Securities Law
In an action for breach of contract, unjust enrichment, and tortious interference with contract based on defendant's refusal to allow certain of its...

Gorzynski v. JetBlue Airways Corp.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In an employment discrimination action based on claims that plaintiff suffered a hostile work environment, age discrimination, and retaliation for...

In re: Saghir

Ethics & Disciplinary Code, Ethics & Professional Responsibility
The Second Circuit removes an attorney from the bar of the court of appeals, pursuant to the court's reciprocal discipline rule, on the ground that...

Rodriguez v. Atkinson, Haskins, Nellis, Brittingham, Gladd & Carwile, P.C.

Attorney's Fees, Contracts, Ethics & Disciplinary Code, Ethics & Professional Responsibility
In an appeal from the district court's order awarding attorneys' fees after an infant compromise hearing, the award is affirmed where: 1) the district...

US v. Walker

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Defendant's firearm possession sentence is affirmed where: 1) the modified categorical approach applicable in the Second Circuit to prior convictions...

Service Employees Int'l., Inc. v. Director, Offc. of Wkrs.' Comp. Program

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Government Contracts, Government Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a petition for review of an order of the Benefits Review Board of the Department of Labor awarding claimant compensation under the Defense Base Act...

US v. Green

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Defendant's crack cocaine and firearm possession sentence is affirmed where defendant was sentenced pursuant to a Fed. R. Crim. P. 11(c)(1)(C) plea...

V.S. v. Muhammad

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Family Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action based on the termination of plaintiff's parental rights due to an allegedly false diagnosis of shaken baby...