United States Second Circuit

The Air Transportation Safety and System Stabilization Act preempts plaintiffs' state-law respiratory injury claims suffered in the aftermath of the events on September 11, 2001.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/14/2005
• Published 07/14/2005

Judges

• KEARSE, Circuit Judge., Before:  KEARSE and CABRANES, Circuit Judges, and KORMAN, Chief District Judge .

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Stephen C. Glasser, New York, New York (Brian J. Shoot, Paul A. Marber, Sullivan Papain Block McGrath & Cannavo, New York, New York, on the brief), for Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross-Appellants., Ryan S. Goldstein, New York, New York, and Wertheimer Associates, New York, New York (Robin Wertheimer, New York, New York, of counsel), for most of the remaining Plaintiffs-Appellees, joined in the brief submitted on behalf of Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross-Appellants., Richard A. Williamson, New York, New York (M. Bradford Stein, James B. Eisenberg, Christina M. Rackett-Solis, Flemming, Zulack & Williamson, New York, New York, on the brief), for Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and Defendant-Appellant World Trade Center Properties., James E. Tyrrell, Jr., Latham & Watkins, Newark, New Jersey (Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, Kenneth A. Becker, Matthew J. Maiorana, New York, New York, on the brief), for Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee The City of New York.