United States Second Circuit

The district court properly dismissed plaintiffs' complaint which alleged that defendants failed to provide adequate communications equipment to New York City firefighters who responded to the terrorist-related attacks of September 11, 2001.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/29/2005
• Published 04/29/2005

Judges

• WESLEY, Circuit Judge., Before:  NEWMAN, STRAUB, and WESLEY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Eric M. Lieberman (Carrie Corcoran, Keith M. Donoghue, on the brief) Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky & Lieberman, New York, New York (Richard Salem, Salem Law Group, Tampa, Florida, William A. Reppy, Jr., Charles L.B. Lowndes Emeritus Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law, Durham, North Carolina;  William Van Alstyne, Lee Professor of Law, Marshall-Wythe School of Law, Williamsburg, Virginia, on the brief), for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Belina Anderson (Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel, Kenneth A. Becker, on the brief) Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, New York, New York, for Defendant-Appellee the City of New York., Michael D. Schissel, Arnold & Porter LLP, New York, New York, for Defendant-Appellee Motorola, Inc.