United States Second Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Warney v. Monroe Cty.

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
In a civil rights action alleging that the exculpatory result of post-trial DNA testing was not timely disclosed to plaintiff, denial of...

Puglisi v. US

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
In an appeal from the district court's denial of defendant's 28 U.S.C. section 2255 motion to vacate his conviction and sentence due to ineffective...

Young v. Cooper Cameron Corp.

Labor & Employment Law
In an action seeking unpaid overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act, summary judgment for plaintiff is affirmed where: 1) plaintiff, a Product...

Wilson v. CIA

Constitutional Law, Contracts, Government Contracts, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law, Media Law
In a First Amendment action claiming that the CIA was required to allow former employee Valerie Plame Wilson to publish a memoir about her tenure at...

US v. Hasan

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Sentencing
Defendant's conviction and sentence for making a false statement on a passport application is affirmed where: 1) 18 U.S.C. section 1542 does not...

Ortiz v. N.Y.S. Parole in Bronx

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Habeas Corpus
In a petition for habeas relief from petitioner's convictions for first degree riot and second degree assault under New York law, denial of the...

Ogle v. Fidelity & Deposit Co. of Md.

Attorney's Fees, Bankruptcy Law
In an appeal from the district court's affirmance of the bankruptcy court's order requiring a liquidating trust to pay post-petition attorneys' fees...

US v. Aguilar

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Defendant's drug-related murder conviction is affirmed where there was sufficient evidence demonstrating that defendant induced his drug associates to...

General Star Nat. Ins. Co. v. Universal Fabricators, Inc.

Construction, Contracts, Insurance Law
In an action claiming that defendant insurer was bound by the terms of an excess insurance policy it had issued to contribute to the satisfaction of a...

Liberty Mut. ins. Co. v. Hurlbut

Civil Procedure, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
In a constitutional challenge to two amendments to the New York Workers' Compensation Law, the district court's judgment abstaining from the case is...