This column reports on several significant, representative decisions handed down recently in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. A three-judge Eastern District panel ordered the governor and various legislators of New York State to implement a congressional redistricting plan that the court felt obligated to draw up in the face of defendants’ delay in issuing their own plan. Judge Joseph F. Bianco granted the government’s motion to transfer defendant to district court for prosecution as an adult. Judge Jack B. Weinstein certified a proposed class for a collective action involving federal and state labor claims. And Judge Denis R. Hurley denied an application by the Securities and Exchange Commission to bar defendant from serving as an officer or director of a publicly traded company.
Redistricting
In Favors v. Cuomo, 11 CV 5632 (EDNY, March 8, 2012, and March 19, 2012), a three-judge Eastern District panel consisting of Second Circuit Judges Reena Raggi and Gerard E. Lynch and Eastern District Judge Dora L. Irizarry: (1) denied defendants’ motions to dismiss, and (2) ordered defendants to implement the Ordered Plan for redistricting developed by the court so that the 2012 elections for the House of Representatives could go forward as scheduled.
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