United States Second Circuit

Denial of plaintiff-cigarette importers' motion for a preliminary injunction, seeking to prevent enforcement of New York Legislation that imposes burdens on firms that have not joined the Master Settlement Agreement, is affirmed where plaintiffs have failed to satisfy the irreparable harm requirement.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/18/2005
• Published 05/18/2005

Judges

• JACOBS, Circuit Judge., Before:  JACOBS and CALABRESI, Circuit Judges, and RAKOFF, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David F. Dobbins, Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, LLP, New York, N.Y. (Blair Axel and Walter M. Luers, on the brief), for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Leonard Violi, Law Offices of Leonard Violi, LLC, Mamaroneck, NY, for amici curiae Grand River Enterprises Six Nations, Ltd., Nationwide Tobacco, Inc., and 3B Holdings, Inc., on behalf of Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Avi Schick, Deputy Counsel to the Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, State of New York, New York, N.Y. (Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General, David Nocenti, Counsel to the Attorney General, and Lewis Polishook, Assistant Attorney General, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees., Nicholas W. Allard, Patton Boggs LLP, Washington, DC (Heather M. McPhee and Jonathan C. Su, Latham & Watkins LLP, Washington, DC;  Mark Sibley Ryan, Daughters & Ryan, Inc., Smithfield, NC;  John R. Long, Liggett Group Inc., Mebane, NC;  Stanley D. Friedman, McAloon & Friedman, PC, New York, NY;  Neal N. Beaton, Holland & Knight LLP, New York, NY;  Barry Garner, Liberty Brands, LLC, Richmond, VA;  Marc N. Bell, Vector Tobacco Inc., Miami, FL;  Jennifer B. Healey, Bryan Cave LLP, Phoenix, AZ;  and Bhavani Parameswar, King Maker Marketing, Inc., Paramus, NJ) for amici curiae Top Tobacco, LP, Daughters & Ryan, Inc., Liggett Group Inc., Sherman 1400 Broadway N.Y.C., Inc., Japan Tobacco Intl. U.S.A., Inc., Liberty Brands, LLC, Vector Tobacco Inc., Lignum-2, Inc., and King Maker Marketing, Inc., on behalf of Defendants-Appellees., Richard A. Samp, Washington Legal Foundation (Daniel J. Popeo), for amicus curiae Washington Legal Foundation, on behalf of Defendants-Appellees.