the exhibit as "sick" and "disgusting." In 2000, Gershon ruled that New York's century-old kosher food laws violated the First Amendment. In the spring of 2006, Gershon presided over the trial of Shahawar Matin Siraj, a Pakistani immigrant who was accused of plotting to blow up New York's Herald Square subway station. After a four-week trial, a jury found Siraj guilty of four crimes, including plotting to bomb a public transportation system. On January 8, 2007, Gershon sentenced Siraj to 30 years imprisonment for his role in the plot. On December 11, 2009, Judge Gershon issued a preliminary injunction against the United States Government preventing the implementation of a law barring the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) from receiving federal funds. Judge Gerson found that the law, passed as part of an Appropriation bill, was an unconstitutional Bill of attainder. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals overturned this decision on August 13, 2010. See also List of Jewish American jurists References External links 1940 births Living people Cornell University alumni Yale Law School alumni 20th-century American Jews Judges of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York United States district court judges appointed by Bill Clinton United States magistrate judges Alumni of the London School of Economics People from Chicago 20th-century American judges 21st-century American judges 20th-century American women judges 21st-century American women judges 21st-century American Jews Fulbright alumni