United States Second Circuit

Where plaintiff did not provide a "meaningful standard against which to judge the Navy's exercise of discretion" in its refusal to relinquish a Medal of Honor to a purported next-of-kin, plaintiff's claims are dismissed for lack of subject matter jurisdiction.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/14/2003
• Published 02/17/2003

Judges

• JACOBS, Circuit Judge., Before:  JACOBS and SACK, Circuit Judges, and TRAGER, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Phillip C. Landrigan, Lunney & Murtagh, LLC, White Plains, New York, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert W. Sadowski, Assistant United States Attorney, New York, New York (James B. Comey, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jeffery S. Oestericher, Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees.