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Lorraine Martin v. Hearst Corporation (2d Cir. 2015) was a defamation case in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit protecting online news sources from having to remove or modify a story chronicling a person's arrest if that arrest is later erased from the record by the government using a criminal erasure statute.
United States v. Thomas, 116 F.3d 606 (2nd Cir. 1997), [1] was a case in which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that a juror could not be removed from a jury on the ground that the juror was acting in purposeful disregard of the court's instructions on the law, when the record evidence raises a possibility that the juror was simply unpersuaded by the Government's case ...
Social media has become notable in threats against high-profile Federal judges. Several threats or encouragements of others to kill United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit judge Brett Kavanaugh or members of the Senate who supported confirmation of his appointment to the US Supreme Court were made on Twitter. Twitter ...
Established on March 3, 1887 by 24 Stat. 492 as a circuit judgeship for the Second Circuit Reassigned on June 16, 1891 to the newly formed U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit by the Judiciary Act of 1891: Lacombe: NY: 1891–1916 Hough: NY: 1916–1927 A. Hand: NY: 1927–1953 Harlan II: NY: 1954–1955 Lumbard: NY: 1955–1971 ...
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit: Full case name: United States v. Robert Tappan Morris : Argued: December 4 1990: Decided: March 7 1991: Citation: 928 F.2d 504: Holding; The Government does not need to prove that the defendant intentionally prevented use of federal interest computers, thereby causing loss.
Amy Ogle, 44, won a lawsuit in federal court against Anderson County government and William Jones, 55, the former circuit court clerk. Former Anderson deputy clerk wins $5.95M suit over sexual ...
In an opinion by Judge Learned Hand, the Second Circuit reversed Peoni's conviction. The court looked to the statute under which Peoni was indicted, 18 U.S.C. § 550 (the predecessor to 18 U.S.C. § 2), [5] which punished anyone who "aids, abets, counsels, commands, induces, or procures" the commission of a crime. The court read this language ...
After graduating from law school, Nardini served as a law clerk to Judges José A. Cabranes from 1994 to 1995, and Guido Calabresi of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1995 to 1996, and to Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1996 to 1997.