United States Second Circuit

Federal law preempts state regulation of an operating subsidiary of a national bank to the same extent that it preempts regulation of the parent national bank.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/11/2005
• Published 07/11/2005

Judges

• STRAUB, Circuit Judge., Before:  McLAUGHLIN, STRAUB, and HALL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William L. Brauch, Assistant Attorney General of the State of Iowa (Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General of Iowa, on the brief), Des Moines, IA, for the Attorneys General of 40 Amici States and Conference of State Bank Supervisors as amici curiae in support of Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Daniel L. Fitzmaurice, Day, Berry & Howard (Jason S. Weathers, on the brief), Hartford, CT, for Plaintiffs-Appellees., Mark F. Kohler, Assistant Attorney General for the State of Connecticut (Richard Blumenthal, Attorney General, on the brief), Hartford, CT, for Defendant-Appellant., Douglas B. Jordan, Counsel for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (Daniel P. Stipano, Acting Chief Counsel;  Horace G. Sneed, Director of Litigation, on the brief), Washington, D.C., for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency as amicus curiae in support of Appellees., Frederick C. Schafrick, Goodwin Procter LLP (Thomas M. Hefferon, Goodwin Procter LLP;  Joseph M. Kolar, Jeremiah S. Buckley, Buckley Kolar LLP, on the brief), Washington, D.C., for the American Bankers Association, America's Community Bankers, Consumer Bankers Association, Consumer Mortgage Coalition, and Financial Services Roundtable as amici curiae in support of Appellees., Michael E. Malamut, Esq., (Andrew R. Grainger, Martin J. Newhouse, on the brief), Boston, MA, for the New England Legal Foundation as amicus curiae in support of Appellees.