United States Second Circuit

An interlocutory order denying the motion of the Commander of the State National Guard to dismiss the suit by reason of the doctrine of intra-military immunity is immediately appealable under the collateral order rule of Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp., 337 U.S. 541 (1949). Such a suit is non-justiciable under the doctrine of intramilitary immunity.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/08/2003
• Published 08/08/2003

Judges

• LEVAL, Circuit Judge., Before:  KEARSE, LEVAL and KATZMANN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Michael S. Buskus, Assistant Solicitor General, for Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York (Nancy A. Spiegel, Assistant Solicitor General;  Peter H. Schiff, Senior Counsel, on the briefs), Albany, New York, for defendant-appellant., Daniel M. Schember, Gaffney & Schember, P.C., Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-appellee.