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Timestamp: 2019-04-21 22:30:45+00:00

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ADMINISTRATIVE LAW, LABOR & EMPLOYMENT LAW, TRANSPORTATION NLRB v. Consolidated Bus Transit, Inc., No. 08-0856 NLRB’s petition for enforcement of its finding that respondent-employer committed an unfair labor practice by terminating an employee is granted where substantial evidence supported the NLRB’s determination that respondent discharged, instead of temporarily disqualified, the employee from employment as a school bus driver. ..
BANKING LAW, CIVIL PROCEDURE, JUDGMENT ENFORCEMENT Koehler v. Bank of Bermuda Ltd., No. 05-2378 In a proceeding to enforce a default judgment, denial of petitioner’s motion seeking an order and requiring respondent to deliver to petitioner certain stock certificates is vacated where a court sitting in New York may order a bank over which it has personal jurisdiction to deliver stock certificates owned by a judgment debtor (or cash equal to their value) to a judgment creditor, pursuant to N.Y. C.P.L.R. Article 52, when those stock certificates are located outside New York.
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, GOVERNMENT LAW Cooper v. U.S. Postal Serv., No. 07-4825 In an Establishment Clause challenge to religious displays in a contract postal unit operated by a church, summary judgment for plaintiff is vacated where the Establishment Clause requires no more than that the postal counter be free of religious material, and that visual cues distinguish the space operating as a postal facility from the space functioning as purely private property.
CRIMINAL LAW & PROCEDURE, SENTENCING US v. Gamez, No. 07-3660 Defendant’s sentence for illegally reentering the U.S. following removal is vacated where criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, in violation of N.Y. Penal Law section 265.03, is not a crime of violence for the purposes of Sentencing Guidelines section 2L1.2(b)(1)(A)(ii).
GOVERNMENT LAW, LABOR & EMPLOYMENT LAW, PER CURIAM Ford v. D.C. 37 Union Local 1549, No. 08-2317 In an action for breach of a union’s duty of fair representation under the Labor Management Relations Act (LMRA), dismissal of the action for lack of jurisdiction is affirmed where the LMRA does not apply to public employees.
CRIMINAL LAW & PROCEDURE, SENTENCING US v. Ray, No. 08-2795 In an appeal from an order sentencing defendant, after a fifteen-year delay, to a one-day term of imprisonment and three years of supervised release with a special condition that she serve six months in a halfway house, the order is vacated where: 1) the Speedy Trial Clause of the Sixth Amendment, which governs the timing of trials, does not apply to sentencing proceedings; but 2) for purposes of a Due Process claim, the delay in the imposition of sentence was not justified by any legitimate reason and caused defendant prejudice insofar as the custodial portion of it threatened to undermine her successful rehabilitation.
CRIMINAL LAW & PROCEDURE, SENTENCING US v. Main, No. 08-4088 In a drug prosecution, a denial of defendant’s motion for a reduction of sentence is affirmed where the district court lacked authority to reduce defendant’s sentence under 18 U.S.C. section 3582(c), because the sentence was dictated by his plea agreement pursuant to Fed. R. Crim. P. 11(c)(1)(C), and not the Sentencing Guidelines related to crack cocaine. ..

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