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 Frederic Block granted a motion to suppress based on an overly broad search warrant. Judge Kiyo A. Matsumoto declined to enforce an oral settlement agreement. And Judge Sandra L. Townes denied a motion for an interlocutory appeal of certain Bankruptcy Court orders.
Search Warrants
In United States v. Cioffi, 08 CR 415 (EDNY, Oct. 26, 2009), Judge Block granted defendant Matthew Tannin’s motion to suppress evidence seized from his personal e-mail account on the ground that the warrant authorizing the seizure was facially invalid under the Warrants Clause of the Fourth Amendment. (On Nov. 10, 2009, both defendants in this case were acquitted after a jury trial.)
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