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 Nina Gershon permanently enjoined the defunding of ACORN as a Bill of Attainder. Judge Jack B. Weinstein held that the Adam Walsh Act’s requirement of electronic monitoring was unconstitutional as applied to a particular defendant now awaiting trial on charges of receipt and possession of child pornography. Judge Dora L. Irizarry ordered that a personal money judgment of $3.16 million be imposed against defendant following his conviction for cocaine offenses. And Judge Arthur D. Spatt dismissed a bankruptcy appeal as moot.
Bill of Attainder
In Acorn v. United States, 09 CV 4888 (EDNY, March 10, 2010), Judge Gershon granted summary judgment permanently enjoining the U.S. government from enforcing legislation that, in the wake of recent highly publicized scandals, had defunded the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). On Jan. 15, 2010, this column reported on Judge Gershon’s grant of a preliminary injunction in the same matter.
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