United States Second Circuit

Defendant's charged with violating the Deadbeat Parents Punishment Act cannot collaterally challenge the subject matter jurisdiction of the state court that entered the underlying support order.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/29/2005
• Published 07/29/2005

Judges

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

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Harry A. Chernoff, Assistant United States Attorney, for David N. Kelley, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, N.Y. (Peter G. Neiman, on the brief), for Appellant., Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York (Michelle Aronowitz, Deputy Solicitor General, and Benjamin N. Gutman, Assistant Solicitor General, of counsel), New York, NY, for amicus curiae the State of New York, in support of Appellant the United States of America., Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel of the City of New York (Larry A. Sonnenshein and Sharyn Michele Rootenberg, of counsel), New York, NY, for amicus curiae the City of New York, in support of Appellant the United States of America.


• For Appellees:
  
• Henry E. Mazurek, Law Offices of Gerald Shargel, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellee.