The Second Circuit affirmed the district court's sentence-four remand of Butts' disability claim for further administrative proceedings rather than a calculation of benefits. Holding for the first time in the circuit that a district court's choice between these two sentence-four remedies is reviewed for abuse of…
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 2004
Published opinions from 2004. The case name opens the case page.
2004 opinions
2nd Cir.Zhou Yun Zhang, Petitioner v. United States Immigration and Naturalization Service, Respondent
October 5, 2004386 F.3d 66
The court denied Zhang’s petition for review, holding that substantial evidence supported the agency’s adverse credibility finding based on material inconsistencies about his wife’s sterilization and when he learned of it.
2nd Cir.Amnesty America, Suing in Its Representative Capacity O/b/o Arrestee Victims of Officially Sanctioned, Intentional…
March 15, 2004361 F.3d 113
The Second Circuit affirmed in part and vacated in part the district court's grant of summary judgment to the Town of West Hartford on Section 1983 excessive-force claims arising from two 1989 anti-abortion demonstrations at a clinic.
2nd Cir.Darline Halloran, Plaintiff-Appellant v. Jo Anne Barnhart, as Commissioner of the Social Security Administration…
March 9, 2004362 F.3d 28
The court affirmed the denial of disability benefits, concluding that the ALJ applied the substance of the treating-physician rule and that substantial evidence supported the finding that Halloran could perform her prior type of work.
The court affirmed the denial of asylum and withholding of removal under the INA, concluding that the airport interview was sufficiently reliable to be considered and that substantial evidence supported the adverse credibility finding.