United States Second Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Weintraub v. Bd. of Educ.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action claiming that a school district violated plaintiff-teacher's First Amendment rights by retaliating against him based on his filing of a...

Berlin v. Middlebrooks

Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a First Amendment challenge to an ordinance that regulated the operation of sexually oriented businesses, a preliminary injunction in favor of...

In re Morgan Stanley Info. Fund Secs. Litig.

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Securities Law
In a securities fraud action alleging that defendant bank failed to make certain disclosures relating to the mutual funds it offered, the dismissal of...

Hanrahan v. Riverside Nursing Home

Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law
In an employment discrimination action, the dismissal of the complaint based on the res judicata effect of a prior state administrative proceeding is...

In re: Jackson

Bankruptcy Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies
In debtors' appeal from a bankruptcy court's order allowing them, pursuant to 11 U.S.C. section 522(d)(11)(E), to exempt from their bankruptcy estate...

In re: Assicurazioni Generali, S.p.A.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, International Law
In an action seeking payment of benefits on insurance policies purchased by plaintiffs' family members from defendant-insurer in the years leading up...

T.Co Metals, LLC v. Dempsey Pipe & Supply, Inc.

Commercial Law, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Remedies
In a motion to vacate an arbitral award, the district court's order affirming the arbitrator's original award and vacating subsequent amendments to...

Ellis v. Solomon & Solomon, P.C.

Civil Procedure, Consumer Protection Law, Debt Collection
In a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) action claiming that defendant law firm violated the FDCPA by personally serving plaintiff with a...

Starr v. Sony BMG Music Ent'mt.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Procedure, Cyberspace Law, Entertainment Law
In an antitrust action alleging a conspiracy by major record labels to fix the prices and terms under which their music would be sold over the...

Huang v. Holder

Administrative Law, Health Law, Immigration Law
In a petition for review of the BIA's order denying petitioner's asylum application, the petition is denied where: 1) the BIA's conclusion that an...