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 Jack B. Weinstein, at the request of the press and over the government’s objection, ordered the unsealing of defendant’s sentencing memorandum, disclosing details of her cooperation with the government in an official corruption investigation. Judge Sterling Johnson Jr. denied a father’s petition, pursuant to the Hague Convention, seeking return of his minor children to Mexico. Judge Arthur D. Spatt dismissed counterclaims for defamation where the allegedly defamatory letter was pertinent to previous and potential litigation. And Judge Denis R. Hurley found that a developer had infringed plaintiffs’ copyrighted design work.
Unsealing Sentencing Memo
In United States v. Huntley, 13 CR 54 (May 7, 2013), Judge Weinstein granted a petition by members of the press to unseal defendant’s sentencing memorandum, which listed names of state legislators and local officials whose conversations she had taped as part of her cooperation with the government.
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