United States Second Circuit

Dismissal of plaintiff's complaint under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE) is affirmed where plaintiff failed to allege that defendants obstructed or interfered with his provision of reproductive services, as required by the FACE Act.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/04/2004
• Decided 10/15/2004
• Published 10/15/2004

Judges

• GLEESON, District Judge., Before:  WALKER, Chief Judge, LEVAL, Circuit Judge, and GLEESON, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Thomas Sharpe, pro se.


• For Appellees:
  
• Andrea Oser, Assistant Solicitor General for the State of New York (Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York;  Caitlin J. Halligan, Solicitor General;  Daniel Smirlock, Deputy Solicitor General), Albany, New York, for Defendants-Appellees Suny Syracuse Health Science Center, NYS Dept. of Health, Barbara DeBuono, M.D., Steve Burkhart, M.D., and Judith J. Choate, and Defendant John W. Choate., Mark J. Schulte, Hancock & Estabrook, LLP, Syracuse, New York, for Defendants-Appellees Charles P. Conole, Robert Leader, Virgilio Rigor, Donald Schuessler, M.D., Vijay Kumar, M.D., R. Mike Lawler, and Janusz Mroz, M.D., S. Paul Battaglia, Bond, Schoeneck & King, LLP, Syracuse, New York, for Defendants-Appellees Martha Ellen and Watertown Daily Times.