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#SecondCircuit

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People (2)

  • Alison Nathan Federal judge, formerly an Obama White House lawyer, who presided over Ghislaine Maxwell's prosecution in Manhattan and sentenced her to 20 years three months after her own commission to the Second Circuit.
  • José A. Cabranes Second Circuit judge, formerly Yale's general counsel and presiding judge of the FISA Court of Review, who sat on five appellate panels in the Giuffre v. Maxwell unsealing fight and Ghislaine Maxwell's criminal appeal.

Events (1)

  • United States v. Hasbajrami United States v. Hasbajrami is the federal prosecution that produced the first judicial rulings requiring a warrant for Section 702 backdoor searches of Americans' communications, with the Second Circuit's 2019 decision and the district court's 2025 ruling establishing the leading Fourth Amendment framework for FISA database querying.