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The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (in case citations, 2d Cir.) is one of the thirteen United States Courts of Appeals. Its territory covers the states of Connecticut, New York, and Vermont, and it has appellate jurisdiction over the U.S. district courts in the following federal judicial districts: District of Connecticut
The court agreed with district court's refusal to follow the Whelan logic because the test is "conceptually overbroad." [ 1 ] A program can have multiple functions and thus many ideas. As an alternate metric, the court presented a three-step test to determine substantial similarity, abstraction-filtration-comparison .
Von Bulow v. Von Bulow, 811 F.2d 136 (2nd Cir. 1987), [1] was a case appealed from a contempt ruling after a United States District Court rejected the claim of a reporter's privilege by Claus von Bulow and Andrea Reynolds. Reynolds, a paralegal, appealed a contempt ruling after she refused to submit an unpublished document for discovery.
The Supreme Court of Virginia has stated that '"This Court has repeatedly held that the effect of an appeal to circuit court is to "annul the judgment of the inferior tribunal as completely as if there had been no previous trial."' [14] The only exception to this is that if a defendant appeals a conviction for a crime having multiple levels of ...
The Indian legal system empowers courts to deal with vexatious litigation through several mechanisms. [24] One common tool is the imposition of costs on the litigant who files frivolous suits. Courts have the discretion to order costs to be paid to the opposing party as a means of discouraging such behavior.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this summer that Palin can again try to hold the paper liable for a 2017 editorial that wrongly suggested she incited the 2011 mass shooting that killed ...
The case is Antonyuk et al v James et al, 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Nos. 22-2908, 22-2972. (Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New YorkEditing by Bill Berkrot, Frances Kerry, Marguerita ...
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 ...