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E. Jean Carroll’s case may fail thanks to broad protections granted to federal officials and employees. She still plans to file a separate suit accusing the ex-president of rape.
NEW YORK — The convictions of a sports business manager and an amateur basketball coach in a conspiracy to bribe top college coaches to get them to steer NBA-bound athletes to favored handlers were upheld Friday by an appeals court. The ruling by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan affirmed the 2019 convictions of Christian Dawkins and youth basketball coach Merl Code on a single conspiracy count. Dawkins was also convicted of bribery. They were acquitted of some other charges. The prosecution resulted from a criminal probe that exposed how financial advisers and business ma...
Federal judges should be willing and able to assess COVID-19 workplace safety, counsel for Amazon.com workers told the Second Circuit Wednesday, after an appellate judge sympathized with the jurist who kicked their case to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
(Barbara Leonard photo/Courthouse News) MANHATTAN (CN) — New York is getting on its feet again after a long year battling Covid-19, but federal appeals court judges dug in Wednesday to landlords’ claims of continuing hardships stemming first from an eviction moratorium and now a state law that lets tenants pay rent with their security deposits. The landlords are fighting the law now as they appeal for an injunction against the moratorium that the District Court denied them. For the state, however, the law is wholly separate from the temporary eviction ban that triggered the fight in the ...
ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT 2nd Circ. Eyes Resentencing After Talk Of Boxer's Nationality Law360, New York (April 8, 2021, 6:00 PM EDT) -- The Second Circuit appeared likely Thursday to order resentencing for a noted boxer convicted of scheming with a Russian crime boss, because of statements the sentencing judge made about the boxer's national origin that appear to run afoul of controlling law. During virtual arguments, Circuit Judges Richard C. Wesley, Susan L. Carney and William J. Nardini suggested that Avtandil Khurtsidze, a onetime World Boxing Organization international middleweight c...