United States Second Circuit

When a state affords alternative procedural forums for pursuing an administrative cause of action, individuals do not have a constitutionally protected property interest in the administrative cause of action.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/15/2001
• Decided 07/23/2001
• Published 07/23/2001

Judges

• Before:  WALKER, Chief Judge, MESKILL and CALABRESI, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• David Raff,Robert L. Becker, Raff & Becker, LLP, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross-Appellants New York State National Organization for Women, New York City Chapter of NOW, Westchester County Chapter of NOW., Edwin J. Lopez, Greater UpstateLaw Project, Rochester, NY, for Plaintiffs-Intervenors-Appellees-Cross-Appellants Clarice Seegars, Bernadette Thomas, and Jane Doe., Gerald J. Dunbar, Brooklyn, NY, for Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellee-Cross-Appellant Dellie Britt., Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York (Preeta D. Bansal, Solicitor General, Robert A. Forte, Deputy Solicitor General, and Adam L. Aronson, Assistant Solicitor General, of counsel), New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees., Elaine R. Jones, Norman J. Chachkin, Charles Stephen Ralston (NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.) New York, NY;  Margaret Fung, Kenneth Kimerling (Asian American Legal Defense & Educational Fund), New York, NY;  Nancy Chang (Center for Constitutional Rights) New York, NY;  Herbert Eisenberg (Davis & Eisenberg), New York, NY;  Yolanda Wu (NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund) New York, NY;  Juan Figueroa (Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Educational Fund) New York, NY, for Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs-Intervenors-Appellees-Cross-Appellants.