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CRIMINAL LAW & PROCEDURE, EVIDENCE, SENTENCING
US v. Quinones, No. 04-5554, 04-5650
In a capital case in which the jury voted not to impose the death
penalty, convictions and sentences for substantive and
conspiratorial counts of racketeering, drug trafficking, and the
murder of a confidential informant are affirmed over challenges to:
1) the empanelment of an anonymous jury; 2) the removal for cause of
certain jurors opposed to the death penalty based only on responses
to a written questionnaire and without follow-up oral voir dire; 3)
various evidentiary rulings; 4) the court's identification of only
three RICO elements in its charge to the jury; and 5) the imposition
of life sentences.
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INSURANCE LAW, LABOR & EMPLOYMENT LAW
Benesowitz v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co., No.
05-6382
Dismissal of plaintiff's claim for long-term disability benefits is
vacated as New York Insurance Law section 3234(a)(2) allows insurers
to toll benefits during the first [twelve] months of coverage, but
does not permit them to impose an absolute bar to coverage for
disabilities stemming from preexisting conditions and arising during
that twelve-month period.
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