United States Second Circuit - Opinion Summaries

JARVIS v. FORD MOTOR CO.

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
Judgment as a matter of law for defendant vacated where evidence, if credited by the jury, was sufficient to establish that plaintiff's automobile...

FIRST CITY, TEXAS-HOUSTON, N.A. v. RAFIDAIN BANK

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Commercial Law
Subject matter jurisdiction under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act existed to decide the underlying litigation involving a loan agreement and...

LOMBARD v. BOOZ-ALLEN & HAMILTON, INC.

Banking Law, Injury & Tort Law
Under New York law, a loan applicant may not recover for negligence by a consulting firm retained by a lender to review the applicant's proposed...

TRAN v. THE ALPHONSE HOTEL CORP.

Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law
Where the only illegal conduct described in the original complaint was a violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act, plaintiff's amendment to the...

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

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

D. L. CROMWELL INV.S, INC. v. NASD REGULATION, INC.

Constitutional Law, Securities Law
Plaintiff's Fifth Amendment rights were not violated by defendant's demand that they submit to on-the-record interviews in connection with its ongoing...

ZERVOS v. VERIZON NEW YORK, INC.

ERISA
Where there was sufficient evidence that denial of ERISA benefits was unreasonable, and time was of the essence with respect to plaintiff's treatment,...

WESTINGHOUSE CREDIT CORPORATION v. D'URSO

Commercial Law, Contracts, Property Law & Real Estate
Seller in a real estate transaction is not entitled to satisfy and extinguish a purchase price adjustment, awarded to buyer in arbitration, by...

PHILLIPS v. BOWEN

Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
Where evidence showed a pattern of hurtful actions taken by plaintiff-s employers over a period of several years, a jury reasonably could find such...

US v. FERNANDEZ-ANTONIA

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing, Immigration Law
Where the district court correctly held that the defendant-s removal proceeding was not prejudiced by any procedural inadequacies, defendant could not...