United States Second Circuit

Summary judgment for defendants in a challenge under the dormant Commerce Clause to certain counties' municipal flow control ordinances is affirmed since, even if the ordinances were found to burden interstate commerce, the burden imposed would not be clearly excessive in relation to the local benefits conferred by the ordinances.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/16/2006
• Published 02/20/2006

Judges

• KATZMANN, Circuit Judge., Before:  CALABRESI, KATZMANN, and WESLEY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Miriam R. Nemetz (Evan M. Tager, on the brief), Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP, Washington, D.C. Appearing for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Caitlin J. Halligan, Solicitor General of the State of New York (Daniel Smirlock, Deputy Solicitor General;  Julie M. Loughran, Assistant Solicitor General;  and John Sipos, Assistant Attorney General, on the brief), for Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York, New York, N.Y. Appearing for Amicus Curiae State of New York., Scott M. DuBoff, Wright & Talisman, P.C., Washington, D.C. (Robert Michalik, Michalik Bauer Silvia & Ciccarillo, New Britain, CT;  Daniel Guiney, County Attorney of Allegany County, Belmont, NY;  Allen Holbrook, Robert Kirtley, Bryan R. Reynolds, Sullivan Mountjoy Stainback & Miller, Owensboro, KY;  Scott Norris, Assistant Legal Counsel, Marion County Office of Legal Counsel, Salem, OR;  Nicholas Nazdo, Jensen Baird Gardner & Henry, Portland, ME;  Mathias H. Heck, Jr., Montgomery County Prosecuting Attorney, Dayton, OH;  Christine M. Chale, Rappaport, Meyers, Whitbeck, Shaw & Rodenhausen, Hudson, NY;  Moran M. Pope, III, Pope & Pope, P.A., Hattiesburg, MS;  Janice E. Ellis, Prosecuting Attorney, George B. Marsh, Deputy Prosecuting Attorney, Snohomish County, Everett, WA;  Harold J. Anderson, Chief Counsel, Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio, Grove City, OH;  Charles H. Younger, Huntsville, AL;  Robert M. Strickler, Griffith, Strickler, Lerman & Solymus, York, PA, of counsel) Submitting Brief for Amici Curiae Bristol Resource Recovery Facility Operating Committee;  Cape May County Municipal Utilities Authority;  County of Allegany, New York;  Daviess County, Kentucky;  County of Madison, New York;  Federation of New York State Solid Waste Associations;  Marion County, Oregon;  Mid-Maine Waste Management Corporation;  Montgomery County, Ohio;  Montgomery-Otsego-Schoharie Solid Waste Management Authority;  New York Chapter of the Solid Waste Association of North America;  New York State Association for Reduction, Reuse and Recycling;  New York State Association for Solid Waste Management;  Pine Belt Regional Solid Waste Management Authority;  Regional Waste Systems, Inc.;   Snohomish County, Washington;  Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio;  Solid Waste Disposal Authority of the City of Huntsville, Alabama and the York County Solid Waste and Refuse Authority.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael J. Cahill, Germano & Cahill, P.C., Holbrook, N.Y. (Thomas E. Kelly, Horigan, Horigan, Lombardo & Kelly, P.C., Amsterdam, N.Y.;   Richard A. Frye, Frye, Foley & Carbone, Utica, N.Y.;  Judy Drabicki, Dexter, N.Y., on the brief) Appearing for Defendants-Appellees.