This column reports on several significant representative decisions handed down recently in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Judge Kiyo A. Matsumoto held, in a putative class action, that claims by registered nurses against a staffing agency under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act were adequately pleaded. Judge Matsumoto granted compassionate release to a defendant serving a below-guidelines custodial sentence of one month. And Judge Pamela K. Chen, citing the "taxicab exemption," rejected a chauffeur's claims against a limousine service under the Fair Labor Standards Act.