The Latest Breaking News from Second Circuit

Reasonable SWAT mistakes, lying forensic pathologists, and de minimis injuries.

Sovereign neighbors, voting particulars, and a qualified baptism.

The public Cortland Housing Authority (near Syracuse) required its tenants not to possess "firearms … or other weapons as defined by the laws and courts of the State of New York" on its property. In Hunter v. Cortland Housing Authority, decided Jan. 30, 2024 (though I somehow missed it), Judge…

Nuclear waste, river cruises, and an exploding toilet.

Public use, ballot selfies, and a bonkers closing statement.

Odor ordinances, woke training, and legislator walkouts.

So held Nassau County (N.Y.) trial judge James P. McCormack last week in In the Matter of Kamenshchik, applying the Second Circuit's recent decision in Antonyuk v. Chiumento. Antonyuk held (among other things) that "requiring applicants to disclose even pseudonymous names under which they post online imposes an impermissible infringement…

Legal phantoms, Frankenstein's monster, and a wrong-door SWAT raid.

"Plaintiff is entitled ... to make his own judgment about whether disclosing his identity under seal to the Court would pose an inordinate risk to his personal safety. But he is not entitled ... to special dispensation from the well-established requirements of the law."

Some provisions remain enjoined, but the decision on “sensitive places” is problematic.

Gag orders, sleeper berths, and a prosecutor's "dodgy side hustle."