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 I. Leo Glasser granted a motion to unseal the docket sheet in an old criminal case. Judge Jack Weinstein held that “No Limit Texas Hold’em” poker is not “gambling” for purposes of the Illegal Gambling Business Act. Judge Raymond Dearie denied a motion by the City of New York and certain police officers to dismiss claims that defendants retaliated against plaintiff, a police detective, for complaining to the Internal Affairs Bureau about the conduct of his colleagues. And Judge Arthur Spatt ruled on a prevailing defendant’s application for costs in various categories.
Motion To Unseal
In In re Application to Unseal 98 Cr 1101 (ILG), United States v. John Doe, 12 Mc. 150 (EDNY, Aug. 27, 2012), Glasser granted intervenors’ motion to unseal the docket sheet in a 1998 criminal case where parts of the record, containing the key confidential facts, had already been revealed on several occasions.
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