2017 Second Circuit US Court of Appeals Case Law
Date: December 22, 2017
Docket Number: 16-1729
Justia Opinion Summary: The Second Circuit affirmed the district court's dismissal of a complaint challenging the USCIS's denial of jurisdiction over plaintiff's application for an adjustment of his immigration status. The court agreed with the…
Date: December 20, 2017
Docket Number: 16-2334
Justia Opinion Summary: The Second Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction for attempted sex trafficking of a minor and the possession, distribution, and transportation of child pornography. The court held that defendant was not in custody when…
Date: December 20, 2017
Docket Number: 16-4133
Justia Opinion Summary: The Second Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of a 28 U.S.C. 2255 motion and decision to uphold petitioner's sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. 924(e). The court held that…
Date: December 19, 2017
Docket Number: 15-3057
Justia Opinion Summary: The Second Circuit vacated the district court's judgment in favor of defendants in a class action alleging that several national securities exchanges mislead them about certain products and services that the exchanges…
Date: December 18, 2017
Docket Number: 16-2055
Justia Opinion Summary: The Second Circuit held that the Secretary of Labor reasonably determined that the cited workplace conditions were subject to regulation under the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standards, rather…
Date: December 13, 2017
Docket Number: 16-3073
Justia Opinion Summary: A jury found William Scully guilty of mail and wire fraud and conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, conspiracy to defraud the United States through the introduction of misbranded drugs into interstate commerce,…
Date: December 12, 2017
Docket Number: 16-1111
Justia Opinion Summary: The Second Circuit vacated defendant's sentence of 60 months in prison, nearly three times the top of the Guidelines range, after he pleaded guilty to one count of illegally reentering the United States after having been…
Date: December 12, 2017
Docket Number: 16-3396
Justia Opinion Summary: Claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), 29 U.S.C. 201, are subject to arbitration. In this case, plaintiff filed suit against defendants, alleging that he was denied overtime pay in violation of the FLSA.…
Date: December 8, 2017
Docket Number: 16-3302
Justia Opinion Summary: Unpaid interns in this case were not "employees" of Hearst for the purpose of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and New York Labor Law (NYLL). The Second Circuit applied the "primary beneficiary" test in Glatt v. Fox…
Date: December 6, 2017
Docket Number: 13-4533
Justia Opinion Summary: On remand from the Supreme Court, the Second Circuit certified the following question to the New York Court of Appeals: Does a merchant comply with New York's General Business Law 518 so long as the merchant posts the…
Date: December 5, 2017
Docket Number: 16-181
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court's decision in Rodriguez v. United States, ––– U.S. –––, 135 S. Ct. 1609 (2015), abrogated the Second Circuit's holding in United States v. Harrison, 606 F.3d 42, 45 (2d Cir. 2010). In this case, the…
Date: November 29, 2017
Docket Number: 13-4173
Justia Opinion Summary: After receiving the answer to two certified questions from the Nevada Supreme Court, the Second Circuit affirmed the district court's dismissal of plaintiff's defamation suit. The Nevada Supreme Court held that a…
Date: November 29, 2017
Docket Number: 16-4029
Justia Opinion Summary: The Second Circuit affirmed the district court's dismissal of a petition pursuant to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction seeking the return of three children from New York to…
Date: November 28, 2017
Docket Number: 15-3831
Justia Opinion Summary: The Second Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of a petition for writ of habeas corpus. Petitioner argued that the introduction at his trial, during the testimony of an expert lab analyst, of a case file…
Date: November 22, 2017
Docket Number: 16-1443
Justia Opinion Summary: Although the Second Circuit agreed with the district court that defendant's substantive due process rights were violated when prison officials assigned plaintiff, who was then a pretrial detainee, to Administrative…
Date: November 21, 2017
Docket Number: 15-0690
Justia Opinion Summary: Judgment creditors of the Islamic Republic of Iran and Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security sought to enforce underlying judgments obtaining the turnover of $1.68 billion in bond proceeds allegedly owned by Bank…
Date: November 14, 2017
Docket Number: 16-2165
Justia Opinion Summary: A debt collector engages in unfair or unconscionable litigation conduct in violation of section 1692f when, as alleged here, it in bad faith unduly prolongs legal proceedings or requires a consumer to appear at an…
Date: November 8, 2017
Docket Number: 15-1426
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, as assignees of its customers against the insurer, appealed the district court's grant of summary judgment for the insurer. Plaintiff alleged that the insurer failed to pay sufficient funds to fulfill its…
Date: November 6, 2017
Docket Number: 16-1912
Justia Opinion Summary: The Second Circuit affirmed the district court's order granting plaintiffs' motion for class certification in an action asserting violations of section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, 15 U.S.C. 78j(b). The…
Date: October 30, 2017
Docket Number: 16-3626
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against defendant, alleging that defendant, who had power of attorney over plaintiff's finances, stole millions of dollars from him through fraudulent financial schemes. The district court granted…
Date: October 27, 2017
Docket Number: 16-1092
Justia Opinion Summary: After claimant was injured while inspecting a moored barge, he filed claims against the barge company as his employer, the owner of the barge, and the operator of the rock processing facility, under the Jones Act, 46…
Date: October 27, 2017
Docket Number: 16-1715
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff appealed the district court's grant of summary judgment to defendants on his claims under 42 U.S.C. 1983 and the Fourth and Fifth Amendments for false arrest, malicious prosecution, and violation of due…
Date: October 23, 2017
Docket Number: 17-1067
Justia Opinion Summary: The Second Circuit granted leave to file a petition for 28 U.S.C. 1292(b) review. At issue was whether petitioners' notice of appeal, which was filed within ten days of the district court's order sought to be reviewed,…
Date: October 20, 2017
Docket Number: 15-1771
Justia Opinion Summary: Three groups of creditors appealed MPM's substantially consummated plan of reorganization under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. The Subordinated Notes holders challenged the lower courts' conclusions that their claims…
Date: October 17, 2017
Docket Number: 16-1463
Justia Opinion Summary: The Second Circuit reversed the district court's denial of qualified immunity for federal law enforcement authorities in an action for money damages pursuant to Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of…
Date: October 11, 2017
Docket Number: 16-2657
Justia Opinion Summary: The Second Circuit vacated the district court's order granting summary judgment for Postal Holdings on Connecticut state law claims of private nuisance and negligence brought by plaintiffs. The court remanded with…
Date: October 5, 2017
Docket Number: 15-1518
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed his 180 month sentence after he was convicted of assaulting a federal officer and was sentenced as a career offender. In light of Beckles v. United States, 137 S. Ct. 886 (2017), the Second Circuit…
Date: October 5, 2017
Docket Number: 16-607
Justia Opinion Summary: The Second Circuit vacated the district court's judgment in favor of shipowners in a negligence action filed by plaintiff after a deckhand unclipped a weighted halyard and it struck plaintiff in the head. The court held…
Date: September 29, 2017
Docket Number: 15-4124
Justia Opinion Summary: The Second Circuit reversed the district court's denial of the police's motion for qualified immunity. Plaintiff, a teenaged train enthusiast, was stopped and handcuffed after the police department received a 911 report…
Date: September 28, 2017
Docket Number: 15-1872
Justia Opinion Summary: FHFA, as conservator for government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), filed suit against defendants, alleging violations of the Securities Act of 1933 and analogous "Blue Sky laws," the Virginia Securities Act, and the D.C.…
Date: September 20, 2017
Docket Number: 13-3213
Justia Opinion Summary: The Second Circuit granted in part and denied in part a motion to abate David Brooks' offenses related to fraud and securities laws. Brooks was the founder, Chair of the Board of Directors, and CEO of DHB Industries, a…
Date: September 19, 2017
Docket Number: 15-464
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against defendants, alleging willful violations of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 (FACTA), 15 U.S.C. 1681c(g). Section 1681c(g) seeks to reduce the risk of identity theft by,…
Date: September 19, 2017
Docket Number: 16-2465
Justia Opinion Summary: George Elias, IV, Stephen Hadford, and Ross Fowler appealed the district court's dismissal of their defamation claims against Rolling Stone and others, alleging claims arising from a now-retracted Rolling Stone magazine…
Date: September 18, 2017
Docket Number: 16-1275
Justia Opinion Summary: The Second Circuit held that its appellate jurisdiction extended to defendant's challenges to both his conviction and sentences for various fraud and theft charges. In this case, the notice of appeal form stated…
Date: September 18, 2017
Docket Number: 16-533
Justia Opinion Summary: BikerGear filed suit against FedEx, accusing FedEx of fraudulently marking up the weights of packages shipped by BikerGear and overcharging BikerGear for Canadian customers, in violation of the Interstate Commerce…
Date: September 12, 2017
Docket Number: 16-1335
Justia Opinion Summary: The Second Circuit affirmed the district court's dismissal of this defamation action as to the out-of-state defendants, holding that Connecticut General Statute 52‐59b—which provides for long‐arm jurisdiction over…
Date: September 11, 2017
Docket Number: 15-1518
Justia Opinion Summary: The Second Circuit affirmed defendant's sentence of 180 months in prison after he was convicted of assaulting a federal officer. In light of Beckles v. United States, 137 S. Ct. 886 (2017), which held that the residual…
Date: September 11, 2017
Docket Number: 16-1754
Justia Opinion Summary: The Second Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of defendant's motion to suppress physical evidence that he had body-packed narcotics into Vermont. The court held that police were not under an obligation to…
Date: September 8, 2017
Docket Number: 16-266
Justia Opinion Summary: A Chinese construction company and seven of its employees challenged the district court's order denying their motion to quash subpoenas requiring the employees to appear before a grand jury. The Second Circuit affirmed…
Date: September 7, 2017
Docket Number: 15-2449
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court vacated the Second Circuit's prior decision in this False Claims Act (FCA) case in light of Universal Health Services, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Escobar, 136 S. Ct. 1989 (2016). The court vacated…
Date: August 31, 2017
Docket Number: 16-0452
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner challenged the denial of his habeas corpus relief in regard to his state convictions for criminal impersonation and forgery. The Second Circuit held that four of the criminal impersonation convictions must be…
Date: August 31, 2017
Docket Number: 16-2325
Justia Opinion Summary: LIAAC petitioned for review of the Board's order determining that LIAAC violated Section 8(a)(1) of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), 29 U.S.C. 158(a)(1), by promulgating an unlawful confidentiality agreement and…
Date: August 30, 2017
Docket Number: 15-1444
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendants Brian Gill, David Gill, and Samuel Waco McIntosh appealed from their conviction of committing and conspiring to commit a drug-related murder. Brian and David also appealed their convictions for conspiring to…
Date: August 30, 2017
Docket Number: 15-1890
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, a former West Point cadet who alleged that she was sexually assaulted by a fellow cadet, filed suit against the United States and others, pleading four causes of action, including a claim against Lieutenant…
Date: August 28, 2017
Docket Number: 16-3655
Justia Opinion Summary: Discovery sought pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 1782 is for use in a proceeding in a foreign or international tribunal where the applicant is a crime victim authorized to submit the discovery to the foreign tribunal, but is not…
Date: August 28, 2017
Docket Number: 16-924
Justia Opinion Summary: The Second Circuit vacated defendant's 46 month sentence after pleading guilty to illegally attempting to reenter the United States after having been deported. Because the sentencing court did not explain the reasoning…
Date: August 24, 2017
Docket Number: 16-2189
Justia Opinion Summary: New York's intestacy law, as it existed in 2013 at the time of the agency's final determination, did not permit children conceived posthumously to inherit via intestacy. In this case, plaintiff had conceived twins via in…
Date: August 23, 2017
Docket Number: 14-3599
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and two counts of securities fraud in connection with an insider trading scheme. After defendant's conviction, the Second Circuit issued a…
Date: August 23, 2017
Docket Number: 16-485
Justia Opinion Summary: This case arose out of a dispute over subcontracting clauses in collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) between the Carpenters' Union and various construction companies and construction managers. The clauses effectively…
Date: August 22, 2017
Docket Number: 15-2914
Justia Opinion Summary: Oyster Bay's ordinance regulating the roadside solicitation of employment violates the First Amendment. The Second Circuit affirmed the district court's order granting injunctive relief to two entities that work to…
Date: August 22, 2017
Docket Number: 16-3748
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit under Section 502(c)(1) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. 1132(c)(1)(B), alleging that defendants failed to timely comply with her request for documents…
Date: August 18, 2017
Docket Number: 16-1568
Justia Opinion Summary: Constitution petitioned for review of the Department's decision denying its application for certification pursuant to Section 401 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, more commonly known as the Clean Water Act…
Date: August 18, 2017
Docket Number: 16-4136
Justia Opinion Summary: The United States appealed the district court's order precluding the government from introducing at trial certain testimony by a co-defendant turned government witness on the basis of the common-interest rule of…
Date: August 17, 2017
Docket Number: 16-2750
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed a putative class action alleging that Uber engaged in illegal price fixing. After the district court denied Uber's motion to compel arbitration, holding that plaintiff did not have reasonably conspicuous…
Date: August 14, 2017
Docket Number: 16-1227
Justia Opinion Summary: Vera sued the Republic of Cuba for the extrajudicial killing of his father in 1976. In 2008, Vera obtained a default judgment against Cuba in Florida state court, relying on the “terrorism exception” to sovereign…
Date: August 14, 2017
Docket Number: 16-3182
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2015, Swain was fired from his job with Hermès managing the company’s New Jersey boutique at the Mall at Short Hills. Swain, a New Jersey resident, sued Hermès in New Jersey state court, asserting claims under New…
Date: August 14, 2017
Docket Number: 16-723
Justia Opinion Summary: Morrone participates in a ʺdefined benefit planʺ offered by the Pension Fund. From 1970-1996, Morrone earned benefits under the Plan; in 1997, he stopped working union jobs. Under the Plan, a participant is entitled to…
Date: August 10, 2017
Docket Number: 16-3140
Justia Opinion Summary: The notice of termination itself constitutes an adverse employment action, even when the employer later rescinds the termination. The Second Circuit held that plaintiff's notice of termination in this case was itself an…
Date: August 8, 2017
Docket Number: 16-1322
Justia Opinion Summary: After defendant was convicted of possessing digital images and videos of child pornography, he violated two conditions of his supervised release. In regard to the computer monitoring condition, the Second Circuit held…
Date: August 3, 2017
Docket Number: 16-1255
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, a shareholder in three public companies, filed suit seeking disgorgement of "short-swing" profits under Section 16(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, 15 U.S.C. 78p(b), from investment entities…
Date: August 2, 2017
Docket Number: 16-2158
Date: July 31, 2017
Docket Number: 16-655
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) after he was held in immigration detention for more than three years because the government mistakenly believed that he was a deportable alien. The district…
Date: July 28, 2017
Docket Number: 15-3249
Justia Opinion Summary: The Second Circuit certified to the Court of Appeals of the State of New York the following question: Whether an entity engaged in the “bail business,” as defined in NYIL 6801(a)(1), may retain its “premium or…
Date: July 28, 2017
Docket Number: 16-2218
Justia Opinion Summary: In 1997, defendant was convicted in the present case of a drug conspiracy (Barinas I). In 2016, defendant was extradited to the United States and convicted on new narcotics trafficking charges (Barinas II). The district…
Date: July 28, 2017
Docket Number: 16-2973
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court addressed in Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. v. Haeger, 137 S. Ct. 1178, 1183‐84 (2017), a federal court's inherent authority to sanction a litigant for bad‐faith conduct by ordering it to pay the other…
Date: July 27, 2017
Docket Number: 15-3930
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs Chorches and Fabula filed a qui taim suit under the False Claims Act (FCA), 31 U.S.C. 3729 et seq., against AMR, alleging that AMR made false statements and submitted false Medicare and Medicaid claims.…
Date: July 27, 2017
Docket Number: 15-923
Justia Opinion Summary: The Second Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of a 28 U.S.C. 2255 petition. Petitioner argued that trial counsel failed to provide constitutionally effective assistance when they conceded before trial that…
Date: July 27, 2017
Docket Number: 16-1465
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner challenged the BIA's dismissal of his appeal challenging the IJ's conclusion that he was a non-citizen convicted of drug offenses that made him inadmissible to the United States. Petitioner also challenged the…
Date: July 25, 2017
Docket Number: 15-3485
Justia Opinion Summary: Tannerite appealed the district court's dismissal of its defamation suit against NBC. The Second Circuit held that federal pleading standards, when applied to New York law, require a plaintiff asserting a defamation…
Date: July 25, 2017
Docket Number: 16-1856
Justia Opinion Summary: The duty of fair representation under the National Labor Relations Act does not necessarily preempt the New York State Human Rights Law (NYSHRL) for claims of discrimination filed by a union member against a labor…
Date: July 24, 2017
Docket Number: 15-2053
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendants, the City of New York and NYPD officers, filed an interlocutory appeal challenging the district court's denial of their motion for judgment on the pleadings. At issue was whether the NYPD officers were…
Date: July 24, 2017
Docket Number: 15-4014
Justia Opinion Summary: The Second Circuit affirmed the denial of defendant's motion to suppress physical evidence. Defendant argued that he was seized when a police officer in a squad car, who had been alerted to a man lurking with a gun,…
Date: July 21, 2017
Docket Number: 16-1545
Justia Opinion Summary: To vacate an arbitration award on the ground that the award was fraudulently procured, the petitioner must demonstrate the fraud was material to the award. There must be a nexus between the alleged fraud and the decision…
Date: July 20, 2017
Docket Number: 14-597
Justia Opinion Summary: Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b)(5) applies to a district court's consideration of a motion to vacate a judgment enforcing an arbitral award that has since been annulled in the primary jurisdiction. In this case, petitioners…
Date: July 19, 2017
Docket Number: 15-2898
Justia Opinion Summary: The Second Circuit vacated the district court's determination that plaintiff asserted claims only under federal law, its dismissal of claims against the individual defendants, and its dismissal of plaintiff's hostile…
Date: July 19, 2017
Docket Number: 16-1318
Justia Opinion Summary: The Second Circuit vacated the district court's judgment in favor of defendants, agreeing with plaintiff that the district court wrongly instructed the jury that "but for" causation applied to Family Medical Leave Act…
Date: July 19, 2017
Docket Number: 16-898
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fifth Amendment's prohibition on the use of compelled testimony in American criminal proceedings applies even when a foreign sovereign has compelled the testimony. When the government makes use of a witness who had…
Date: July 18, 2017
Docket Number: 15-2047
Justia Opinion Summary: Olin, a large chemical manufacturing company, filed suit against its insurers, including OneBeacon, seeking indemnification for environmental contamination at its manufacturing sites. On appeal, OneBeacon challenged two…
Date: July 17, 2017
Docket Number: 15-2825
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit after the county refused to return her longarms that had been seized in connection with a New York Family Court temporary order of protection issued against her, even though the order was no longer…
Date: July 17, 2017
Docket Number: 16-305
Justia Opinion Summary: The Second Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of publishing companies on issues of antitrust injury and causation. Abbey House, dba BooksOnBoard, filed this civil antitrust action…
Date: July 17, 2017
Docket Number: 16-726
Justia Opinion Summary: The Second Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of Simon & Schuster on the issues of antitrust injury and causation. Lavoho, successor in interest to Diesel, filed this antitrust…
Date: July 14, 2017
Docket Number: 16-1271
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, a former principal of a Roman Catholic school, filed suit alleging that she was terminated on the basis of unlawful gender discrimination and retaliation. The Second Circuit affirmed the district court's grant…
Date: July 13, 2017
Docket Number: 16-158
Justia Opinion Summary: In this dispute between a judgment creditor and a Connecticut State Marshall over whether the Marshal was entitled to a statute that awards a commission, the Second Circuit concluded that Connecticut state law was…
Date: July 13, 2017
Docket Number: 16-1615
Justia Opinion Summary: The Second Circuit vacated and remanded defendant's conviction for all counts related to the abuse of his public position by engaging in two quid pro quo schemes in which he performed official acts in exchange for bribes…
Date: July 13, 2017
Docket Number: 16-1680
Justia Opinion Summary: The Aviation and Transportation Security Act, 49 U.S.C. 44935 note, commits the termination of the employment of TSA screeners to the unreviewable discretion of the TSA Administrator. The Second Circuit held that the…
Date: July 13, 2017
Docket Number: 16-217
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs, retired officers of Booz Allen, filed suit alleging that they were improperly denied compensation when, after their retirement, Booz Allen sold one of its divisions in the Carlyle Transaction. The Second…
Date: July 13, 2017
Docket Number: 17-780
Justia Opinion Summary: The Second Circuit denied a petition for leave to file a successive motion under 28 U.S.C. 2255 to vacate petitioner's sentence on the ground that the enhanced punishment imposed because of his prior state convictions…
Date: July 12, 2017
Docket Number: 16-308
Justia Opinion Summary: HSBC and the government appealed the district court's grant of a motion by a member of the public to unseal the Monitor's Report in a case involving a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) with HSBC. The Second Circuit…
Date: July 12, 2017
Docket Number: 16-336
Justia Opinion Summary: The Second Circuit vacated the district court's judgment finding that defendant, a police officer, did not use excessive force in the fatal shooting of Kevin Callahan. The court held that the jury instruction regarding…
Date: July 11, 2017
Docket Number: 15-707
Justia Opinion Summary: The Second Circuit held that the district court erred in declining to vacate an arbitral award‐creditor’s ex parte petition for entry of a federal judgment against a foreign sovereign premised on an award made under the…
Date: July 10, 2017
Docket Number: 15-3118
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed his conviction for 21 counts of public-corruption-related offenses. The Government conceded that, in light of McDonnell v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 2355 (2016), which narrowed the interpretation of…
Date: July 7, 2017
Docket Number: 14-2759
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendants Martinez, Rodriguez, Fiorentino, and Tejada appealed their convictions stemming from their involvement in a conspiracy, spanning at least a decade, in which more than two dozen persons were alleged to have…
Date: July 7, 2017
Docket Number: 16-1914
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs, holders of Petrobras equity, filed a class action against various defendants after the multinational oil and gas company was involved in money-laundering and kickback schemes. The district court certified two…
Date: July 6, 2017
Docket Number: 15-3602
Justia Opinion Summary: The Second Circuit affirmed the district court's award of equitable relief in this Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. 1001 et seq., action. The court rejected defendants' challenges to the…
Date: July 6, 2017
Docket Number: 16-1056
Justia Opinion Summary: The Second Circuit vacated the district court's order denying plaintiffs' motion for attorneys' fees and costs incurred in litigating an appeal and cross-appeal under 42 U.S.C. 1988. After the court affirmed on the…
Date: July 5, 2017
Docket Number: 15-3764
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendants appealed the district court's motion for summary judgment dismissing on qualified immunity grounds an action brought under 42 U.S.C. 1983. Plaintiff, as conservator of the estate of his brother, Israel Soto,…
Date: July 5, 2017
Docket Number: 15-4174
Justia Opinion Summary: The Second Circuit vacated defendant's 63 month sentence for conspiracy to commit robbery, holding that the district court denied the acceptance-of-responsibility adjustment under USSG 3E1.1(a) based on clearly…
Date: July 5, 2017
Docket Number: 16-1258
Justia Opinion Summary: The Second Circuit affirmed defendants' motion for qualified immunity in plaintiffs' action claiming false arrest, unnecessary use of force, and First Amendment retaliation. The court held that its mandate in Brown v.…
Date: July 5, 2017
Docket Number: 16-3034
Justia Opinion Summary: The Second Circuit affirmed the district court's dismissal of a petition for innocent spouse relief based on lack of jurisdiction and from an order denying petitioner's motion to vacate the order of dismissal. The court…
Date: June 30, 2017
Docket Number: 15-3231
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against the Hospital under the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), 29 U.S.C. 2601 et seq., alleging that the Hospital terminated her illegally for taking medical leave to which she was entitled under…
Date: June 29, 2017
Docket Number: 15-3372
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs filed suit against BNTK and BUSA for their alleged roles in plaintiffs' 2008 abduction from London and their prolonged detention in Belarus by authorities of that country. The Second Circuit held that it has…
Date: June 28, 2017
Docket Number: 16-2946
Justia Opinion Summary: Allco appealed the district court's dismissal of two related, but not formally consolidated, complaints that focus on Connecticut's implementation of Connecticut Public Acts 13-303 and 15-107. Allco argued that the state…
Date: June 26, 2017
Docket Number: 14-3709
Justia Opinion Summary: Guided by unambiguous statutory language in the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 (FACTA), 15 U.S.C. 1681c(g), that a receipt with a credit card expiration date does not raise a material risk of identity…
Date: June 23, 2017
Docket Number: 16-2364
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, convicted of attempted criminal contempt in the second degree and harassment in the second degree, petitioned for habeas relief under 28 U.S.C. 2254. Petitioner was sentenced to a one-year conditional…
Date: June 22, 2017
Docket Number: 15-2322
Justia Opinion Summary: The Second Circuit held that, when applied, Section 5‐335 of the New York General Obligations Law prohibited Aetna's reduction of plaintiff's disability benefits. In this case, neither the Employee Retirement Income…
Date: June 22, 2017
Docket Number: 16-2104
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against Lincoln, alleging violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), 47 U.S.C. 227. The Second Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment for Lincoln, holding…
Date: June 22, 2017
Docket Number: 16-303
Justia Opinion Summary: When the U.S. Attorney has refused to make a Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 35(b) motion for reasons that are not invidious or unrelated to a legitimate government concern, it is not the office of the court to weigh…
Date: June 21, 2017
Docket Number: 14-1433
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a native and citizen of Grenada, sought review of the BIA's decision affirming the IJ's denial of his applications for cancellation of removal, asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention…
Date: June 21, 2017
Docket Number: 15-516
Justia Opinion Summary: After petitioner committed a drug crime but before his crime was adjudicated, Congress passed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA), 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(13)(C)(v). At issue was…
Date: June 21, 2017
Docket Number: 16-1758
Justia Opinion Summary: Benjamin Ashmore appealed the district court's order dismissing him as the plaintiff in a whistleblower action under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, 18 U.S.C. 1514A. Instead, the trustee of Ashmore's bankruptcy estate was…
Date: June 21, 2017
Docket Number: 16-2158
Justia Opinion Summary: MGM filed suit claiming that Special Act 15‐7 of the Connecticut General Assembly placed it at a competitive disadvantage in the state's gaming industry. The Act creates a special registration pathway for the state's two…
Date: June 21, 2017
Docket Number: 16-3861
Justia Opinion Summary: Contractual disclaimers of reliance on prior misrepresentations do not render those misrepresentations immaterial under the criminal mail and wire fraud statutes. The Second Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction and…
Date: June 21, 2017
Docket Number: 16-65
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed a securities class action alleging claims arising out of the Initial Public Offering (IPO) shares for Vivint Solar. The Second Circuit affirmed the district court's dismissal of the complaint, holding…
Date: June 19, 2017
Docket Number: 15-1080
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendants Burden and Buchanan were sentenced to life imprisonment based on their convictions for, among other things, racketeering, violent crimes in aid of racketeering, and conspiracy to distribute and possess with…
Date: June 15, 2017
Docket Number: 16-2004
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against defendant and the University, alleging a claim of retaliation based on his complaint of sexual harassment. The district court granted defendants' motion to dismiss. The Second Circuit applied…
Date: June 13, 2017
Docket Number: 15-3706
Justia Opinion Summary: A group of hotel-related businesses, as well as investors and guarantors, filed suit alleging claims of fraud against the Royal Bank and two of its subsidiaries. The district court dismissed the claims because plaintiffs…
Date: June 12, 2017
Docket Number: 15-3934
Justia Opinion Summary: The Water District appealed from the district court's judgment in a consolidated multidistrict litigation granting summary judgment to BP and Shell on the ground that the Water District's suit was barred by res judicata…
Date: June 8, 2017
Docket Number: 15-3671
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit alleging that defendant, the principal of Capital Prep, violated plaintiff's First Amendment right of freedom of assembly and his state-law right to be free from the intentional infliction of…
Date: June 6, 2017
Docket Number: 15-2035
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant Cummings was convicted of drug and firearms charges related to causing the death of a person. The Second Circuit held that the district court erred by admitting hearsay evidence of a death threat he allegedly…
Date: June 6, 2017
Docket Number: 16-733
Justia Opinion Summary: Former employees of World Airways challenged the dismissal of their complaint seeking damages for fraud, breach of contract and violation of an employee benefit plan. The Second Circuit agreed with the district court…
Date: June 5, 2017
Docket Number: 14-1204
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant argued that his defense counsel provided ineffective assistance of counsel based on a conflict of interest because counsel was involved in a possible secret sexual relationship with defendant's mother. The…
Date: June 5, 2017
Docket Number: 16-207
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury awarded damages based on CSS's avoided costs in a misappropriation and unfair competition action, TydenBrooks requested mandatory prejudgment interest under section 5001(a) of the New York Civil Practice Law…
Date: June 2, 2017
Docket Number: 16-986
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed a putative class action alleging that grocery stores in New York operated by Whole Foods systematically overstated the weights of pre‐packaged food products and overcharged customers as a result. The…
Date: June 1, 2017
Docket Number: 15-683
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of multiple crimes including conspiracy, firearm, and drug-related offenses. On appeal, defendant principally argued that the district court erred in denying his motions for suppression of his…
Date: June 1, 2017
Docket Number: 15-802
Justia Opinion Summary: The Second Circuit held that it need not decide whether the presence of the same person, in two different capacities, on both sides of a case caption, defeats diversity because the challenged judgment here rests on a…
Date: May 31, 2017
Docket Number: 15-1307
Justia Opinion Summary: The New York Court of Appeals answered a certified question from the Second Circuit, holding that liability under Section 296(15) the New York State Human Rights Law (NYSHRL) is limited to an aggrieved party's employer.…
Date: May 31, 2017
Docket Number: 15-1815
Justia Opinion Summary: Collecting IP address information devoid of content is constitutionally indistinguishable from the use of a pen register. The Second Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction and sentence for drug trafficking charges and…
Date: May 30, 2017
Docket Number: 15-3979
Justia Opinion Summary: Under the doctrine of abatement, the government has no right to retain fines imposed pursuant to a conviction that is subsequently vacated. In this case, the executrix of the estate of Thomas W. Libous, a former New York…
Date: May 26, 2017
Docket Number: 16-1689
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs, employed as English teachers by defendants, filed suit on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated, alleging that defendants violated the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), 29 U.S.C. 201 et seq., and…
Date: May 26, 2017
Docket Number: 16-510
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff challenged the dismissal of his Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) and state law claims against the principals of a Venezuelan energy company. The Second Circuit affirmed the dismissal of…
Date: May 22, 2017
Docket Number: 15-3487
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, convicted of murder and related-offenses, sought review of the district court's denial of habeas relief, arguing that trial counsel was ineffective for failing to call a medical expert both to interpret the…
Date: May 22, 2017
Docket Number: 15-3525
Justia Opinion Summary: A nolle prosequi constitutes a "favorable termination" for the purpose of determining when a 42 U.S.C. 1983 claim accrues. In this case, plaintiff filed suit against defendant, a police officer, under section 1983,…
Date: May 22, 2017
Docket Number: 16-973
Justia Opinion Summary: In this disability discrimination case, the Second Circuit certified the following question to the New York Court of Appeals: Do sections 8‐102(16)(c) and 8‐107(1)(a) of the New York City Administrative Code preclude a…
Date: May 18, 2017
Docket Number: 15-2150
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against Aetna and its wholly-owned subsidiaries, seeking reimbursement from Aetna for performing two knee surgeries on a patient who was a member of an Aetna-administered health care plan that was…
Date: May 16, 2017
Docket Number: 15-3819
Justia Opinion Summary: At issue in this appeal was whether defendant should have been acquitted of transporting an alien within the United States for profit in violation of 8 U.S.C. 1324(a)(1)(A)(ii) and 1324(a)(1)(B)(i). The Second Circuit…
Date: May 10, 2017
Docket Number: 16-4321
Justia Opinion Summary: The Second Circuit held that it lacked jurisdiction to hear defendant's appeal of the denial of his Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 29 and double jeopardy motions. Defendant has not stated a colorable double jeopardy…
Date: May 10, 2017
Docket Number: 16-815
Justia Opinion Summary: The Second Circuit reversed and remanded the district court's dismissal of plaintiff's lemon law suit based on lack of subject matter jurisdiction. Plaintiff filed suit under the Magnuson‐Moss Warranty—Federal Trade…
Date: May 9, 2017
Docket Number: 15-958
Justia Opinion Summary: The Second Circuit affirmed Defendants Lyle and Van Praagh's conviction and sentence for drug trafficking charges. The Second Circuit held that the district court did not err in denying Lyle's motion to suppress where he…
Date: May 4, 2017
Docket Number: 16-1296
Justia Opinion Summary: After Lehman Brothers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, thousands of its employees were holding restricted stock units (RSUs) that had been awarded over the preceding five years, but that had not yet vested and had thus…
Date: April 26, 2017
Docket Number: 16-530
Justia Opinion Summary: F5, a Cayman Islands corporation that invests in international shipping companies, filed a shareholder derivative action on behalf of Star Bulk, a global shipping company, alleging that individual members of Star Bulk's…
Date: April 21, 2017
Docket Number: 15-1841
Justia Opinion Summary: Pier Sixty challenged the determination that it violated Sections 8(a)(1) and 8(a)(3) of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), 29 U.S.C. 158(a)(1) and (3), by discharging an employee in retaliation for protected…
Date: April 20, 2017
Docket Number: 16-343
Justia Opinion Summary: Avoca Plaintiffs filed suits against New Kerr-McGee, alleging toxic tort claims. The suits were stayed when the owners/operators of the Avoca Plant, Tronox debtors, filed for bankruptcy. In this appeal, Avoca challenged…
Date: April 18, 2017
Docket Number: 15-3775
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, a skydiver, filed suit against his former employer, Altitude Express, under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. 2000e et seq., and New York law, alleging that he was terminated from his position as a…
Date: April 18, 2017
Docket Number: 15-3776
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was found guilty of possessing a firearm as a previously convicted felon. At issue was whether the district court erred in denying defendant's motion to suppress the gun on Fourth Amendment grounds. The court…
Date: April 17, 2017
Docket Number: 14-3739
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant Key was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire and several drug- and firearm-related offenses. On appeal, defendant principally challenged the sufficiency of the evidence supporting his conviction…
Date: April 17, 2017
Docket Number: 14-4295
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of one count of possession of child pornography and one count of transportation of child pornography. The government proved at trial that defendant owned a collection of child pornography and…
Date: April 14, 2017
Docket Number: 15-4185
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs, unsuccessful bidders in a bankruptcy proceeding, appealed the district court's dismissal of their suit alleging claims for breach of fiduciary duty, tortious interference, and common law fraud against the law…
Date: April 12, 2017
Docket Number: 15-88
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs, black-car drivers in the greater New York City area, filed suit alleging that defendants, owners of black-car "base licenses" and affiliated entities, violated the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), 29 U.S.C.…
Date: April 10, 2017
Docket Number: 11-5446
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed two rulings by the district court vacating its order dated December 26, 2007, which had granted him more than $1.1 million in credits towards his restitution obligations pursuant to the Mandatory…
Date: April 4, 2017
Docket Number: 16-705
Justia Opinion Summary: Relator filed a qui tam action under the False Claims Act (FCA), 31 U.S.C. 3729 et seq., against numerous insurance and trucking companies. On appeal, relator challenged the district court's dismissal with prejudice as a…
Date: March 29, 2017
Docket Number: 15-3105
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, individually and on behalf of others similarly situated, filed suit against defendant, alleging violation of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), 15 U.S.C. 1692 et seq. Plaintiff alleged that…
Date: March 29, 2017
Docket Number: 15-3415
Justia Opinion Summary: Tru-Art appealed the district court's order denying its motion for interest and costs. After a jury trial, the district court entered judgment for Tru-Art. On appeal, this court affirmed the finding of liability, vacated…
Date: March 27, 2017
Docket Number: 15-2074
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, a native and citizen of Ecuador, sought review of the BIA's order affirming the IJ's finding of removeability based on his unlawful entry into the United States. Petitioner, an unaccompanied juvenile of 17,…
Date: March 27, 2017
Docket Number: 16-748
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against defendants under the Americans with Disabilities Education Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. 12101 et seq.; Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. 2000e et seq.; and state and local law.…
Date: March 24, 2017
Docket Number: 15-2608
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs filed suit challenging the constitutionality of a collection of New York regulations and laws that together prevent for‐profit law firms from accepting capital investment from non‐lawyers. The district court…
Date: March 24, 2017
Docket Number: 15-3964
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs filed suit under 26 U.S.C. 7431 against the IRS, after the IRS sent a report containing plaintiffs' names, social security numbers, and financial information to the wrong person. The government conceded…
Date: March 22, 2017
Docket Number: 16-3937
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant appealed her conviction of one count of embezzling funds from her company's 401(k) plan, and the forfeiture order entered against her. The court affirmed the conviction in a summary order issued…
Date: March 21, 2017
Docket Number: 15-277
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, who suffers from a fear of needles (trypanophobia), filed suit against Rite Aid, alleging violation of his rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. 12101 et seq., after he was…
Date: March 20, 2017
Docket Number: 15-1653
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner and the Government cross-appealed the tax court's orders relating to petitioner's underreporting of income in his 2003 tax return, principally in connection with a $2 million payment he received from Delta…
Date: March 17, 2017
Docket Number: 15-3134
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner, born in the Dominican Republic to unwed parents and admitted to the United States as a lawful permanent resident, sought review of the BIA's decision affirming the IJ's finding that petitioner was ineligible…
Date: March 15, 2017
Docket Number: 15-2516
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted, among other crimes, of coercing and enticing a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity. The court held that the district court did not err in denying defendant's motion to suppress…
Date: March 13, 2017
Docket Number: 15-1285
Justia Opinion Summary: Carrington appealed the district court's judgment requiring them to pay plaintiff, the indirect purchaser and assignee of a limited prejudgment interest in defendants' fund, damages plus prejudgment interest for breach…
Date: March 10, 2017
Docket Number: 15-3498
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant plead guilty to conspiracy to possess and distribute cocaine, cocaine base, heroin, and marijuana, and being a felon in possession of a firearm. The court concluded that defendant's plea was not entered…
Date: March 9, 2017
Docket Number: 14-3708
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against ZocDoc, alleging violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), 47 U.S.C. 227. Plaintiff's suit stemmed from two unsolicited telecopies (faxes), it allegedly received from…
Date: March 8, 2017
Docket Number: 14-1113
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendants Monsalvatge, Byam, and Dunkley appealed their convictions stemming from their armed robberies of two Pay‐O‐Matic check‐cashing stores. A summary order filed simultaneously with this opinion addressed the…
Date: March 7, 2017
Docket Number: 14-3213
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendants Dey and Finazzo were involved in a conspiracy to use South Bay as a supplier of Aeropostale apparel in exchange for secret payments. Finazzo was a former merchandising executive for Aeropostale, and Dey…
Date: March 7, 2017
Docket Number: 14-4419
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner sought review of the BIA's dismissal of his appeal from the denial of his applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (CAT). In this case, petitioner, who…
Date: March 2, 2017
Docket Numbers: 15-1133, 15‐1146
Justia Opinion Summary: CBF, appellants and award-creditors, challenged the district court's two judgments dismissing CBF's initial action to enforce and subsequent action to confirm a foreign arbitral award against appellees as alter-egos of…
Date: March 2, 2017
Docket Number: 15-4013
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs filed suit challenging New York City's "Sourcing Law," which requires that pet shops sell only animals acquired from breeders holding a Class A license issued under the federal Animal Welfare Act (AWA), 7…
Date: February 23, 2017
Docket Number: 15-94
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendants Natal and Morales appealed their sentences and convictions for crimes including arson resulting in death, accessory after the fact to arson, and destruction and concealment of evidence. The court held that…
Date: February 21, 2017
Docket Number: 15-2870
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs, 20 state pretrial detainees, filed suit under 42 U.S.C. 1983, alleging that the City and the supervisory officers of a pre-arraignment holding facility were deliberately indifferent to allegedly…
Date: February 17, 2017
Docket Number: 16-1562
Justia Opinion Summary: After the district court granted habeas relief to petitioner based on his Batson v. Kentucky challenge, respondent appealed. The district court held that the New York State Appellate Division, First Department, had…
Date: February 16, 2017
Docket Number: 15-1164
Justia Opinion Summary: Sirius appealed the district court's order denying its motions for summary judgment and reconsideration in regard to Flo & Eddie's copyright infringement suit. The court certified a significant and unresolved issue of…
Date: February 15, 2017
Docket Number: 12-4663
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendants Barret, Mitchell, and Scarlett were convicted of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute in excess of 1,000 kilograms of marijuana. The court joined its sister circuits in finding that…
Date: February 9, 2017
Docket Number: 15-1113
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA), 29 U.S.C. 2601 et seq., against his employer, MCU, after he was denied leave to take care of his seriously ill grandfather who, in loco…
Date: February 8, 2017
Docket Number: 15-3364
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs filed a class action alleging that Takeda prevented competitors from timely marketing a generic version of Takeda’s diabetes drug ACTOS by falsely describing two patents to the FDA. Plaintiffs claimed that…
Date: February 3, 2017
Docket Number: 15-288
Justia Opinion Summary: Physicians filed suit against Boehringer, a pharmaceutical company, alleging violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991, as amended by the Junk Fax Protection Act of 2005 (TCPA), 47 U.S.C. 227. …
Date: February 2, 2017
Docket Number: 14-4467
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff filed suit against MTBank, alleging violations of various state and federal statues by not allowing her to work remotely when she became pregnant. The magistrate judge ruled as a matter of law against plaintiff…
Date: January 25, 2017
Docket Number: 15-2570
Justia Opinion Summary: After defendant pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine, the district court sentenced him to 210 months in prison. Defendant moved for a sentence reduction under 18…
Date: January 24, 2017
Docket Number: 15-3673
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, an inmate confined in solitary confinement for the last twenty-two years, filed suit under 42 U.S.C. 1983 against current and former prison officials, alleging that his solitary confinement under…
Date: January 19, 2017
Docket Number: 14-4662
Justia Opinion Summary: After plaintiffs' convictions for rape and murder were vacated and they had served eighteen years in prison, plaintiff filed suit alleging, inter alia, malicious prosecution and denial of fair trial claims. Defendant, as…
Date: January 19, 2017
Docket Number: 15-2181
Justia Opinion Summary: This appeal requires the court to determine whether Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) has the capacity to challenge a New York State claim-revival statute as unconstitutional under the New York State Constitution. The…
Date: January 18, 2017
Docket Number: 14-1823
Justia Opinion Summary: Several environmentalist organizations and state, provincial, and tribal governments filed suit challenging the EPA's Water Transfers Rule. The Rule formalized the EPA's stance to take a hands‐off approach to water…
Date: January 18, 2017
Docket Number: 14-975
Justia Opinion Summary: TAL challenges the district court's grant of summary judgment to the Chugh Defendants. The district court held that TAL's claims for breach of fiduciary duty by Chugh had previously been determined in Chugh's favor in a…
Date: January 18, 2017
Docket Numbers: 15-1133, 15-1146
Justia Opinion Summary: CBF, appellants and award-creditors, challenged the district court's two judgments dismissing CBF's initial action to enforce and subsequent action to confirm a foreign arbitral award against appellees as alter-egos of…
Date: January 17, 2017
Docket Number: 15-2124
Justia Opinion Summary: EDMC challenges the district court's holding that a series of transactions meant to restructure EDMC’s debt over the objections of certain noteholders violated Section 316(b) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, 15 U.S.C.…
Date: January 10, 2017
Docket Number: 15-4076
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff, on behalf of herself and her autistic son, filed suit under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), 20 U.S.C. 1400 et seq., against the DOE, seeking tuition reimbursement and claiming…
Date: January 9, 2017
Docket Number: 15-2272
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner appealed the denial of his habeas petition filed under 28 U.S.C. 2254. The state trial court, during the trial testimony of the undercover officers involved in petitioner's arrest, closed the courtroom to the…
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