United States Second Circuit

The district court properly dismissed plaintiff's complaint, seeking to prevent the defendants from selling "rebadged" cars, for failure to state a claim upon which relief could be granted.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/22/2005
• Published 09/22/2005

Judges

• GIBSON, Circuit Judge., Before:  WALKER, Chief Judge, HALL, and JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Dale A. Schreiber, Proskauer Rose LLP (David N. Ellenhorn and Steven H. Holinstat, on the brief), New York, New York, for Subaru Distributors Corp., Plaintiff-Appellant., John J. Sullivan, Carl J. Chiappa, and Colm A. Moran, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP, New York, New York and Los Angeles, California, for amici curiae Association of International Automobile Manufacturers, Inc. and the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, Inc.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jeffrey D. Herschman, Piper Rudnick LLP, (Douglas A. Rappaport, New York, New York;  Lewis A. Noonberg and F. Martin Dajani, Washington, DC;  and Deana L. Cairo, Baltimore, Maryland, on the brief), Baltimore, Maryland, for Subaru of America, Inc., Defendant-Appellee., Dwight J. Davis, King & Spalding, LLP, New York, New York, for General Motors Corp., Saab Automobile AB, and Saab Cars USA, Inc., Defendants-Appellees., Daniel L. Goldberg, Bingham McCutchen LLP (Mark M. Elliott and William F. Benson, on the brief), Boston, MA, for Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., Defendant-Appellee.