United States Second Circuit

Summary judgment for defendants on a civil rights complaint alleging that certain employees of health agencies arranged to revoke the state-required operating certificate for a nursing home as retaliation for protected speech is vacated as to a First Amendment retaliation claim against defendants.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/01/2006
• Published 02/01/2006

Judges

• JACOBS, Circuit Judge., Before:  JACOBS and B.D. PARKER, Circuit Judges, and HURD, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mark A. Grannis, Harris, Witshire & Grannis, LLP, (Christopher J. Wright, Timothy J. Simeone, Harris, Witshire & Grannis, LLP, Kevin S. Cooman, Peter J. Weishaar, McConville, Considine, Cooman & Morin, P.C., Rochester, NY, on the brief), Washington, D.C., for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Shaifali Puri, Assistant Solicitor General, State of New York (Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York, of counsel Michelle Arnowitz, Deputy Solicitor General, on the brief), for Appellees.