2024 Second Circuit US Court of Appeals Case Law
Date: May 10, 2024
Docket Number: 22-1726
Justia Opinion Summary: The plaintiff, Marina Soliman, filed a lawsuit against Subway Franchisee Advertising Fund Trust, Ltd. ("Subway"), alleging that a marketing text message she received on her cell phone violated the Telephone Consumer…
Date: May 10, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1217
Justia Opinion Summary: Jason Doherty, a former student at Purchase College, State University of New York, who has Asperger Syndrome, sued several administrators of the college under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) for declaratory and…
Date: May 2, 2024
Docket Number: 22-2684
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves a group of plaintiffs who filed a class-action lawsuit against KIND, LLC, a snack food company. The plaintiffs alleged that the phrase "All Natural" on the labels of KIND's products was deceptive and…
Date: May 1, 2024
Docket Number: 21-2891
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves Ramon Dejesus Cedeno, an employee of Strategic Financial Solutions, LLC, and a participant in its Strategic Employee Stock Ownership Plan. Cedeno sued the company, its trustee Argent Trust Company, and…
Date: April 30, 2024
Docket Number: 22-1775
Justia Opinion Summary: Antonio Ortiz, while on supervised release for a drug-trafficking conviction, was accused of repeatedly raping his teenage daughter. The district court found Ortiz guilty of three release violations related to the rapes…
Date: April 30, 2024
Docket Number: 22-854
Justia Opinion Summary: This case involves Commerzbank AG, a German bank, and U.S. Bank, N.A., an American bank. Commerzbank sued U.S. Bank, alleging that it had failed to fulfill its duties as a trustee for residential mortgage-backed…
Date: April 29, 2024
Docket Number: 22-2958
Justia Opinion Summary: A U.S. citizen, Maalik Alim Jones, pleaded guilty to terrorism-related charges for his involvement with al-Shabaab, an Islamist military organization in Kenya and Somalia. The district court accepted his plea and…
Date: April 26, 2024
Docket Number: 21-1975
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2021, New York enacted the Affordable Broadband Act (ABA), which required internet service providers to offer broadband internet to qualifying households at reduced prices. A group of trade organizations representing…
Date: April 25, 2024
Docket Number: 23-582
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves Jane Doe, who sued the Franklin Square Union Free School District on behalf of herself and her minor daughter, Sarah Doe. The lawsuit was filed after the school district refused to grant Sarah an…
Date: April 24, 2024
Docket Number: 21-1438
Justia Opinion Summary: Adis Medunjanin was arrested in 2010 and charged with nine terrorism-related counts, including attempting to commit an act of terrorism and possessing a destructive device in furtherance of crimes of violence. The…
Date: April 24, 2024
Docket Number: 23-8081
Justia Opinion Summary: The case revolves around Patrick Dai, a student at Cornell University, who was charged with making interstate threats of violence against Jewish students at the university. The government sought to detain Dai pretrial,…
Date: April 23, 2024
Docket Number: 23-6394
Justia Opinion Summary: Rodger Freeman, convicted of a felony in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, was sentenced to imprisonment followed by a term of supervised release. After completing his federal prison…
Date: April 16, 2024
Docket Number: 23-325
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves a dispute over the use of the term "Medical Special Operations Conference" and its acronym "MSOC" as a trademark. The plaintiff, the City of New York and the FDNY Foundation, and the defendant, Juan…
Date: April 15, 2024
Docket Number: 23-647
Justia Opinion Summary: The case revolves around Dycom Industries, Inc. ("Dycom") and its predecessor, Midtown Express, LLC ("Midtown"), a cable contractor that installed, serviced, and disconnected telecommunications cables for Time Warner…
Date: April 5, 2024
Docket Number: 19-87
Date: April 5, 2024
Docket Number: 22-2710
Justia Opinion Summary: A group of citizens and a civic organization, Citizens United To Protect Our Neighborhoods (CUPON), filed a lawsuit against the Village of Chestnut Ridge, New York, alleging that the village violated the Establishment…
Date: April 4, 2024
Docket Number: 21-2132
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves Indemnity Insurance Company of North America ("Indemnity") and Unitrans International Corporation ("Unitrans"). Indemnity, as the insurer of Amgen, a pharmaceutical company, paid for the loss of a…
Date: March 27, 2024
Docket Number: 23-437
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case handled by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the plaintiff, Alexis Marquez, an attorney who represented herself, claimed that an Acting New York State Supreme Court Justice harassed…
Date: March 26, 2024
Docket Number: 23-238
Justia Opinion Summary: Elaine Bart, a former supermarket manager, brought a lawsuit against her former employer, Golub Corporation, alleging gender discrimination under Title VII and state law. She was fired for falsifying food logs, a…
Date: March 25, 2024
Docket Number: 22-1645
Justia Opinion Summary: The case was a lawsuit filed by Janet and Joseph Harvey against the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Sierra Leone to the United Nations. The Harveys alleged that they were harmed by faulty renovations at the…
Date: March 22, 2024
Docket Number: 17-3904
Justia Opinion Summary: The case in question involves a defendant, Saba Rosario Ventura, who was initially detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after the District Court ordered his release on bail pending his criminal trial.…
Date: March 20, 2024
Docket Number: 22-1237
Justia Opinion Summary: The plaintiff-Appellant, Kristen King, claimed that her employer, Aramark Services Inc., subjected her to a sex-based hostile work environment, discrimination, and retaliation in violation of the New York State Human…
Date: March 20, 2024
Docket Number: 22-1442
Justia Opinion Summary: In the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the appellant, Brittany Jones, claimed she was sexually abused by a teacher between 2009 and 2011, when she was a high school student. She brought her claims…
Date: March 19, 2024
Docket Number: 22-969
Justia Opinion Summary: The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit heard an appeal by Christopher Callahan against a judgment by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The district court had…
Date: March 18, 2024
Docket Number: 22-0427
Justia Opinion Summary: The case was heard in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit between Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., the plaintiff-appellant, against Novartis Pharma AG and associates, the defendants-appellees.…
Date: March 18, 2024
Docket Number: 23-384
Justia Opinion Summary: Six full-time professors at the City University of New York filed a lawsuit challenging New York’s Public Employees’ Fair Employment Act, known as the Taylor Law, alleging it violated their First Amendment rights to free…
Date: March 18, 2024
Docket Number: 23-690
Justia Opinion Summary: The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit heard an appeal involving Timothy Daileader, the independent director and manager of an affiliated group of companies, collectively known as "Oaktree," which were…
Date: March 15, 2024
Docket Number: 21-2954
Justia Opinion Summary: The defendant-appellant, Alex Oliveras, was sentenced to sixty-three months' imprisonment and a three-year supervised release term for possessing cocaine with intent to distribute and possessing a firearm in furtherance…
Date: March 15, 2024
Docket Number: 22-1029
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves a dispute over the legality of an agreement between River 1, LLC, an American company, and Viking USA LLC, a subsidiary of a Swiss company, under federal maritime law. The United States Maritime…
Date: March 15, 2024
Docket Number: 22-2090
Justia Opinion Summary: The case pertains to Ariel Jimenez, who owned and operated a tax preparation business in Bronx, New York. Between 2009 and 2015, Jimenez led a large-scale tax fraud and identity theft scheme, purchasing stolen identities…
Date: March 15, 2024
Docket Number: 22-412
Justia Opinion Summary: John D. Whitfield's application for a job as a Youth Development Specialist with the New York City Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) was rejected. Whitfield alleged that the rejection was discriminatory and…
Date: March 15, 2024
Docket Number: 22-413
Justia Opinion Summary: In the early morning hours of September 8, 2018, Mabior Jok was standing outside a bar in Burlington, Vermont, when Joseph Corrow, an officer of the Burlington Police Department, approached the group. The details of what…
Date: March 14, 2024
Docket Number: 20-1644
Justia Opinion Summary: The plaintiff-appellant, Maurice Cotton, an inmate, filed a civil rights lawsuit against corrections officials at the Green Haven Correctional Facility. He alleged that he was wrongfully denied a transfer to another…
Date: March 14, 2024
Docket Number: 22-366
Justia Opinion Summary: The case in question involves a dispute over the use of the term "red gold" in the marketing of wristwatches. The plaintiff-appellant Solid 21, a luxury jewelry and watch business, owns a trademark in RED GOLD® since…
Date: March 13, 2024
Docket Number: 20-4080
Justia Opinion Summary: This case arose from a Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) enforcement action against Mohammed Ali Rashid, a former senior partner at the private equity firm Apollo Management L.P. Rashid was accused of breaching his…
Date: March 13, 2024
Docket Number: 21-2603
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case, five former customers of Peregrine Financial Group, Inc., a defunct futures commission merchant, filed a class action lawsuit against various defendants, including JPMorgan Chase Bank and National Futures…
Date: March 13, 2024
Docket Number: 22-2722
Justia Opinion Summary: The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the decision of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, which dismissed the plaintiffs' complaint. The plaintiffs, Ben and…
Date: March 13, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1296
Justia Opinion Summary: The case in question involves an appeal by Joseph William Foley against the United States Tax Court's dismissal of his deficiency protest due to untimeliness. Foley filed a protest against a notice of deficiency issued…
Date: March 12, 2024
Docket Number: 21-2582
Justia Opinion Summary: In the case of Rafael Jimenez v. Tina M. Stanford, Chairperson of the New York State Board of Parole, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the district court’s judgment denying Jimenez’s…
Date: March 12, 2024
Docket Number: 23-311
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case, Aquila Alpha LLC (Aquila) appealed against a judgment from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, affirming a bankruptcy court’s decision to deny Aquila’s motion to vacate a…
Date: March 12, 2024
Docket Number: 23-726
Justia Opinion Summary: The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit heard a case initiated by Adam Hart, who filed a qui tam action under the False Claims Act (FCA) against pharmaceutical distributor McKesson. Hart alleged that…
Date: March 11, 2024
Docket Number: 22-6185
Justia Opinion Summary: Kwok Sum Wong, a citizen of China and Hong Kong native, petitioned for review of a decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) affirming a decision by an Immigration Judge (IJ) that found him removable under the…
Date: March 8, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3091
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves Brian Benjamin, a state senator in New York from 2017 to 2021, who was indicted on charges of federal funds bribery, honest services wire fraud, conspiracy to commit each of those offenses, and…
Date: March 8, 2024
Docket Number: 22-972
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves a group of plaintiffs who used the online cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, to purchase crypto-assets known as "tokens". They allege Binance violated the Securities Act of 1933 and the "Blue Sky"…
Date: March 6, 2024
Docket Number: 23-15
Justia Opinion Summary: The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reviewed a decision made by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiff, Do No Harm, a membership organization, filed a…
Date: March 5, 2024
Docket Number: 22-1539
Justia Opinion Summary: In the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Defendant-Appellant Kevin Delvalle appealed his sentence, arguing his guilty plea was involuntary as he believed he would receive a sentence below the…
Date: March 5, 2024
Docket Number: 22-1558
Justia Opinion Summary: The case being summarized involves two subclasses of current and former tipped employees at two New York City restaurants, who filed suit against the restaurants and their owners for violations of the New York Labor Law…
Date: March 4, 2024
Docket Number: 23-7635
Justia Opinion Summary: The case originates from an Application for Judicial Assistance under 28 U.S.C. § 1782 by Frasers Group PLC ("Frasers"), a British retailer group. Frasers requested to obtain documentary and testimonial evidence from…
Date: February 28, 2024
Docket Number: 20-3599
Justia Opinion Summary: This case revolves around the plaintiff, Cindy L. Moll, who made allegations of gender-based discrimination, including hostile work environment, retaliatory transfer of her job site, and discriminatory or retaliatory…
Date: February 27, 2024
Docket Number: 22-1086
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed a decision from the United States District Court for the District of Vermont. The defendant, Cory Johnson, had been convicted for the…
Date: February 27, 2024
Docket Number: 22-1921
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case, plaintiff-appellant John Kowalchuck sued his former employer, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), under the Federal Employers' Liability Act for injuries he sustained while clearing snow at an…
Date: February 21, 2024
Docket Number: 22-2026
Justia Opinion Summary: In the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the case revolves around the appeal of Gregory Thomas, who alleges ineffective assistance of counsel due to the failure to file an appeal from his…
Date: February 16, 2024
Docket Number: 22-1047
Justia Opinion Summary: The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York's dismissal of a lawsuit brought by BMG Monroe I, LLC. BMG, a developer, had sued…
Date: February 9, 2024
Docket Number: 22-2039
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case before the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the plaintiffs were U.S. investors who purchased Mexican government bonds. They alleged that the defendants, Mexican branches of several…
Date: February 6, 2024
Docket Number: 20-3894
Justia Opinion Summary: The plaintiff, Dr. Misty Blanchette Porter, had been a staff physician at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) since 1996. She specialized in reproductive medicine and was highly regarded in her field. In November…
Date: February 5, 2024
Docket Number: 21-3015
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves the appeal of Defendant-Appellant Dewey K. Sims from a sentencing judgment entered in the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York. Sims had pleaded guilty to possessing a…
Date: February 5, 2024
Docket Number: 22-1589
Justia Opinion Summary: The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has ruled in a complex environmental case involving an entity known as the Revitalizing Auto Communities Environmental Response Trust (RACER), which was created…
Date: February 1, 2024
Docket Number: 22-943
Justia Opinion Summary: A group of 18 pension and retirement funds and other investors alleged that 10 large banks conspired to rig U.S. Treasury auctions and boycott the emergence of direct, "all-to-all" trading between buy-side investors on…
Date: January 31, 2024
Docket Number: 21-1036
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves an appeal by a plaintiff against the dismissal of his lawsuit against the City of Buffalo and some of its police officers. The plaintiff was arrested and charged with violating a city noise ordinance…
Date: January 31, 2024
Docket Number: 21-1125
Justia Opinion Summary: This case is about a dispute between Richard Roe and St. John’s University (SJU) and Jane Doe. Roe, a male student at SJU, was accused of sexually assaulting two female students, Doe and Mary Smith, on separate…
Date: January 31, 2024
Docket Number: 23-154
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case before the United States Court of Appeals For the Second Circuit, two investment firms, held debt securities issued by FriendFinder Networks, Inc., and an affiliate. Several years later, FriendFinder’s…
Date: January 30, 2024
Docket Number: 22-2057
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the dismissal of Minhye Park’s case against David Dennis Kim by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The…
Date: January 30, 2024
Docket Number: 22-320
Justia Opinion Summary: Ivan Reyes-Arzate, the defendant-appellant, appealed his conviction and sentence after pleading guilty to a drug offense before the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. He was sentenced to…
Date: January 29, 2024
Docket Number: 21-2763
Justia Opinion Summary: The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld the life imprisonment sentence of Azibo Aquart, who was found guilty of multiple federal homicide and drug trafficking crimes. The court had previously…
Date: January 29, 2024
Docket Number: 22-2928
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case, a group of patients initiated a class action lawsuit against various hospitals and vendors who provide medical record production services to the hospitals. The plaintiffs alleged that the hospitals and…
Date: January 29, 2024
Docket Number: 23-137
Justia Opinion Summary: John Wilson, the plaintiff-appellant, made several requests under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the defendant-appellee, to release records concerning him.…
Date: January 26, 2024
Docket Number: 22-751
Justia Opinion Summary: The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit addressed a dispute involving the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority (TBTA) and several plaintiffs who had been fined for failing to pay tolls at TBTA…
Date: January 23, 2024
Docket Number: 22-863
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case, the plaintiff, William Loomis, a truck driver who was injured in a car accident in New York, sought recovery from his employer's insurance company, ACE American Insurance Company, for his remaining damages…
Date: January 22, 2024
Docket Number: 23-286
Justia Opinion Summary: The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has decided an appeal from The Resource Group International Limited, TRG Pakistan Limited, Mohammed Khaishgi, and Hasnain Aslam against Muhammad Ziaullah Khan…
Date: January 17, 2024
Docket Number: 21-2535
Justia Opinion Summary: In the dispute between fashion designer and social media influencer Hayley Paige Gutman and her former employer, JLM Couture, Inc., the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit considered the preliminary…
Date: January 5, 2024
Docket Number: 22-491
Justia Opinion Summary: In the case involving the Restaurant Law Center and the New York State Restaurant Association against the City of New York and the Commissioner of the City’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, the plaintiffs…
Date: January 2, 2024
Docket Number: 22-2061
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff Joseph Kasiotis filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of himself and other similarly situated New York consumers against the New York Black Car Operators’ Injury Compensation Fund, Inc. (the “Fund”). The…
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