United States Second Circuit

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Appellate Information

• Decided 07/27/2001
• Published 07/27/2001

Judges

• OAKES, Senior Circuit Judge., Before OAKES, KEARSE and CABRANES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David B. Wolf, New York, N.Y. (Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard, LLP, of counsel), for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jeffrey A. Oppenheim, New York, N.Y. (Law Office of Jeffrey A. Oppenheim, of counsel), for Defendants-Appellees.