A federal appeals court has rejected Federal District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin’s motion asking the appellate court to lift an order that reassigned a pair of cases related to the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk department.

The appeals panel issued two new opinions (posted here and here).

The three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit backed away from its previous suggestion that Judge Scheindlin violated the judicial code of conduct via public comments made while the cases were pending, but did not reconsider its decision to reassign the cases.