Second Circuit Court of Appeals News

Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell is calling the Democrat-controlled legislature into special session Dec.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is seeking sanctions - including possible incarceration - against regional sewer czar William A. DiBella, arguing that he has "willfully disobeyed" a court order to pay nearly $700,000 in penalties for taking a sham fee on a state pension investment arranged by convicted state Treasurer Paul Silvester.

It's hard to when you're making it up as you go along. In yesterday's exchange with Senator Kyl, while giving the back of the hand to my claim that leftist lawyers had derailed the Military Commissions Act of 2006, Attorney General Eric " Real American Values " Holder argued that it was the Supreme Court - "not, I think, a group of leftist lawyers" ...

A group of 12 Mississippi Gulf Coast homeowners is using a novel legal strategy to try to recoup losses suffered during Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Prosecutors in the Monroe County District Attorney's Office are shielded from liability for not quickly revealing the results of genetic testing that led to freedom for a wrongly convicted man, a federal appeals court has ruled.

Apparently, no one told Sonia Sotomayor that Supreme Court justices are supposed to be circumspect, emerging from their marble palace mainly to dispense legal wisdom to law schools, judges' conferences and lawyers' meetings.

"The decision to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other top al-Qaeda terrorists to New York City for a civilian trial is one of the most irresponsible ever made by a presidential administration.

Prosecutors who allegedly failed to timely disclose an exculpatory DNA test conducted post-trial are shielded by absolute immunity, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled.

The Veterans Day parade, a tradition that began in 1919, marched down Fifth Avenue last week.

A federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered a disbarred civil rights lawyer convicted in a terrorism case to go to prison and said a judge must consider whether her sentence of a little more than two years behind bars was too lenient.

A federal appeals court says it is disturbed by allegations that some prosecutors have long denied low-income defendants their right to arraignment and free legal representation when they first appear in court.

Fox calls two assertions it attributes to the FCC "stunning": 1) that the quid pro quo for an FCC license is broadcasters having to live with a poorly-articulated indecency standard and 2) that Fox is under an obligation to defend the artistic merit of speech.

If the United States government can seize, hold and facilitate the torture of an innocent person - and then avoid any liability for it by claiming national security is at stake - what's left of America's claim to any moral standing in the world? For that matter, what's left of the Constitution, or of any individual's right to be protected from ...

An appeals court judge has granted at least the second major extension in the double murder retrial of Robie Drake, pushing off the potential date for at least another two months.

A federal appeals court in New York says the CIA did not violate Valerie Plame's free speech rights.The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a 2007 lower court decision in its ruling Thursday.

Date : Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:51:23 +0400 RENDITION PROSECUTED ABROAD WHILE U.S. COURTS DO NOTHING By Mary Shaw Online Journal Nov 10, 2009, 00:10 The George W. Bush administration was the target of much criticism from human rights groups for, among other things, its policy of extraordinary rendition, in which detainees have been transferred for ...

A retired North Tonawanda police officer said Monday that having to testify in the Robie J. Drake murder retrial literally might kill him.

The George W. Bush administration was the target of much criticism from human rights groups for, among other things, its policy of extraordinary rendition, in which detainees have been transferred for interrogation in other countries that are known for their use of torture.

Five immigrant men who were detained in roundups in New York and eventually deported following the Sept.

Home > This Week's News > Free Breaking News: Panel Finds Canadian Has No Standing to Sue Government Over Alleged Rendition to Syria By Mark Fass November 03, 2009 A split en banc panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has ruled that a Canadian citizen who alleges that U.S. officials "rendered" him to Syria to be tortured in 2002 ...