United States Second Circuit

District court judgment declaring various provisions of the New York Rules Governing Judicial Conduct facially unconstitutional and permanently enjoining defendants from enforcing the provisions, is vacated where Younger abstention applies to all of plaintiffs' claims.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/09/2003
• Published 12/09/2003

Judges

• STRAUB, Circuit Judge., Before:  MINER, CALABRESI, and STRAUB, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Peter Vollmer, Vollmer & Tanck, LLP, Jericho, NY, for Amicus Curiae The Constitution Project's Courts Initiative., Deborah Goldberg and J.J. Gass, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, New York, NY, (Victor A. Kovner, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, of counsel), for Amicus Curiae Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law., Alfred P. Carlton, American Bar Association, Chicago, IL, (K. Jane Fankhanel, W. Wendell Hall, and Warren S. Huang, of counsel), for Amicus Curiae American Bar Association., Steven C. Krane,Proskauer Rose LLP, New York, NY, for Amici Curiae New York State Bar Association, Suffolk County Bar Association, and Asian American Bar Association., Daniel Murdock and Joan Salzmann, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, New York, NY, (Scott A. Rosenberg, Kirsten E. Gillibrand, and Robert Newman, of counsel), for Amicus Curiae The Association of the Bar of the City of New York.


• For Appellees:
  
• David F. Kunz,DeGraff, Foy, Kunz & Devine, LLP (George J. Szary, on the brief), Albany, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross-Appellants., Caitlin J. Halligan, Solicitor General, (Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York, Robert H. Easton, and Edward Lindner, Assistant Solicitors General, of counsel), New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees.