United States Second Circuit - Opinion Summaries

REGIONAL ECON. CMTY. ACTION PROGRAM, INC. v. CITY OF MIDDLETOWN

Civil Rights, Property Law & Real Estate
Summary judgment on each of plaintiffs' claims, brought under the Fair Housing Act, the ADA, and the Rehabilitation Act, was erroneous in so far as...

STROUGO v. BASSINI

Class Actions, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Securities Law
Where alleged injuries resulting from the coercive nature of a rights offering were to shareholders alone, and did not derive from an injury to the...

MUNAFO v. METRO. TRANSP. AUTH.

Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
Because defendants' motivation for terminating plaintiff is in dispute, and adjudication of defendants' qualified immunity defense requires resolution...

COONS v. CASABELLA

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
Where officer knew that plaintiff had been involved in an accident, in which he drove his truck into a telephone pole in the early morning hours, and...

KING v. AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC.

Civil Rights, Injury & Tort Law, Remedies, Transportation
Where the events giving rise to a discriminatory bumping claim occurred in the course of embarkation during the international "carriage of passengers...

US v. HANDAKAS

Contracts, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Contracts
Conspiracy to commit mail fraud and conspiracy to launder money counts held to be constitutionally infirm, because the "honest services" provision of...

US v. ELIAS

Criminal Law & Procedure
Where prosecutor mischaracterized defense argument in remarks calculated to inflame the jury, no retrial was justified because: (1) proceeding was...