United States Second Circuit

New York Agriculture & Markets Laws, aimed at preventing fraud in the kosher food industry, 1) excessively entangle state and religion through enforcement requirements, and 2) impermissibly advance Orthodox Judaism by causing consumers of kosher products to purchase only those that are kosher under the Orthodox definition.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/28/2001
• Decided 05/21/2002
• Published 05/21/2002

Judges

• MINER, Circuit Judge., Before MINER, LEVAL, and POOLER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Marc D. Stern, American Jewish Congress, New York, NY, for Amici Curiae American Jewish Congress and United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert Jay Dinerstein,Dinerstein & Lesser, P.C., Commack, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellees., Caitlin Halligan, First Deputy Solicitor General of the State of New York, New York, N.Y. (Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York, Michael Belohavek, Deputy Solicitor General of the State of New York, on the brief, and Sachin Pandya, Assistant Solicitor General of the State of New York, of counsel), for Defendant-Appellant., Nathan Lewin, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C., Washington, DC (Alyza D. Lewin, Noam B. Fischman, on the brief, and Dennis Rapps, National Jewish Commission on Law and Public Affairs, New York, NY, of counsel), for Intervenors-Defendants-Appellants.