Sentences with phrase «appeals panel yesterday»
A Federal appeals panel yesterday unanimously overturned the fraud conviction of former Assembly Speaker Mel Miller of Brooklyn, agreeing that a tangled real - estate deal in which he and his former law partner netted $ 200,000 did not constitute a crime.
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Meanwhile, a decision yesterday from a three - judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Cook v. Gates, is drawing interest for its dismissal of a constitutional challenge to the federal government's controversial «Don't Ask, Don't Tell,» policy on gays in the military.
«Judges Press C.I.A. Lawyer Over Withheld Documents»: The New York Times today contains an article that begins, «A federal appeals court panel in Manhattan questioned a lawyer for the federal government yesterday as to whether the Central Intelligence Agency had a legitimate national security interest in refusing to confirm or deny the existence of documents authorizing it to detain and interrogate terrorism suspects overseas.»
Circuit Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton wrote yesterday's ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on behalf of a unanimous three - judge panel.
«[T] he weight of authority suggests that accurate news reporting — even when it is likely to have an adverse impact on the subjects of the report — usually does not give rise to an action for intentional infliction of emotional distress»: Yesterday, a unanimous three - judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit issued a decision affirming a federal district court's dismissal of claims for invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress asserted by two former undercover police officers against a television station in Albuquerque that had revealed their identities and their undercover status in the context of a televised report about their suspected involvement in an alleged incident of sexual assault.
Yesterday, a 2 - 1 decision, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in a case brought by the Center for Reproductive Rights on behalf of several Texas abortion providers, ruled against Texas women and allowed abortion restrictions to eviscerate women's access to safe and legal abortion in the state.