Roger Jeffrey Miner
How Judge Miner rules, drawn from 30 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
Judge Miner no longer hears cases. This profile is preserved as a historical record of how they ruled here.
About Judge Miner
Roger Jeffrey Miner was a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Appointed by President Ronald Reagan, Judge Miner received a commission on July 22, 1985. Judge Miner previously served on the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York, commissioned there on September 28, 1981. Judge Miner assumed senior status on January 1, 1997 and served until death on February 18, 2012.
How Judge Miner decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
Read the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act as a strict-liability statute, holding that even a single false or misleading statement in a collection letter violates it and that the collector's culpability matters only to damages.
“The FDCPA is a strict liability statute”
Procedural preferences
Declined to expand the narrow, historically fixed categories of unprotected speech to reach depictions of violence, keeping a content-based restriction squarely within strict scrutiny.
“We decline any invitation to expand these narrow categories of speech to include depictions of violence.”
Cautions
Held the government to a demanding evidentiary standard when it defends a speech restriction, requiring real and non-conjectural proof of harm rather than legislative surmise.
“The First Amendment thus imposes a high standard of precision on legislative efforts to regulate the content of speech.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“places class counsel in a potentially conflicting position in relation to the interests of the class, we reverse.”
“The matter is remanded to the district court with instructions to combine the convictions under Counts Three and Four and to resentence under Count Four. In all other respects, the judgment of the district court is affirmed.”
“For the reasons set forth below, we affirm the judgment of the district court.”
“the judgment is reversed, and the case is remanded for further proceedings consistent with this opinion. ... For the reasons set forth in the district court's opinion, we affirm the dismissal of these claims”
“The judgment of the district court is reversed and the case is remanded for further proceedings consistent with the foregoing.”
“The judgment of the district court is reversed and the case remanded for further proceedings consistent with the foregoing.”
“we reject the notion of retroactive divestiture of an insurable interest and therefore reverse and remand in accordance with the analysis that follows.”
A historical record
Judge Miner no longer hears cases. This profile stays available as a record of how they ruled here. If you're preparing for a matter, start from the court's current bench.