U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second CircuitcircuitDeceased · served 1966–2014Appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic) 29 signed orders read
Judge Feinberg no longer hears cases. This profile is preserved as a historical record of how they ruled.
How Judge Feinberg decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
Read securities-fraud standing under Rule 10b-5 broadly, rejecting a revived 'privity' requirement: the purchaser-seller rule limits who may sue, not who may be sued, so those who fraudulently induce a purchase are not exempt merely because they were not the sellers.
“the rule does not require that defendant be the seller of the stock or that plaintiff have purchased the stock from defendant.”
Structured constitutional tort analysis around a single threshold question, resolving whether any officer violated the plaintiff's rights before reaching municipal (Monell) liability or supplemental state-law claims.
“The first two claims depend on a single threshold question: did the officers’ actions violate Matican’s constitutional rights?”
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