United States Second Circuit

New York State's Freedom of Information Law does not abrogate a county's copyrights in its official tax maps.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/28/2001
• Decided 07/25/2001
• Published 07/25/2001

Judges

• STRAUB, Circuit Judge:, Before: JACOBS, STRAUB, and POOLER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Frank K. Walsh, Assistant Solicitor General, Albany, NY (Preeta D. Bansal, Solicitor General, Daniel Smirlock, Deputy Solicitor General, of counsel), on behalf of Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York, for amicus curiae State of New York., Michael D. Hess, Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, New York, NY (Leonard Koerner, Katherine Winningham, of counsel), for amicus curiae City of New York.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jeltje DeJong, Assistant County Attorney, Hauppauge, NY, on behalf of Robert J. Cimino, Suffolk County Attorney, for Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross-Appellee., Andrew L. Deutsch, Piper Marbury Rudnick & Wolfe LLP, New York, NY (Edward F. Maluf, Christine M. Jaskiewicz, of counsel), for Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant.