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 Raymond J. Dearie was constrained by precedent to deny petitioner’s motion to expunge her old criminal conviction, but explained why it is “now time” to change the law in this area. Judge Frederic Block, with only one exception, rejected numerous copyright claims regarding after-the-fact transcriptions of certain unrecorded talks by Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson.
Judge Joseph F. Bianco held that defendant Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) had not waived sovereign immunity as to insurance claims where the policies were sold by a private company and only guaranteed by FEMA. And Judge Brian M. Cogan held defendants, both Chinese companies, in civil contempt for their post-judgment discovery tactics, but denied the particular sanctions proposed by plaintiff.
Expungement of Conviction
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