This column reports on several significant, representative decisions handed down recently in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Jack B. Weinstein granted in part, and denied in part, an application by Bloomberg News to unseal sentencing materials. Judge Joanna Seybert granted a new trial to two of three plaintiffs seeking §1983 damages after their criminal convictions had been vacated based on DNA evidence. Judge Arthur D. Spatt remanded a case to a state criminal court in East Hampton where defendant, a Shinnecock Indian, could not show that he would be denied "racial equality" in the state court. And Judge Denis R. Hurley held that Centro de la Communidad Hispana de Locust Valley had standing to challenge a town ordinance prohibiting day laborers from soliciting work by trying to stop vehicles, and that defendants were not entitled to discover the identities of Centro's members.
Sentencing Documents
In United States v. Taiyyib Ali Munir, 12 CR 648-1 (EDNY, July 17, 2013), an insider trading case, Weinstein denied an application by Bloomberg News to unseal the Probation Department's presentence report, while granting its application to unseal defendant's sentencing memorandum and letters of support, but with redactions prescribed by the court.
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