United States Second Circuit

Dismissal under Rule 12(b)(6), Fed. R. Civ. P., is vacated where the district court erred by considering matters outside the pleadings.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/31/2005
• Decided 07/28/2006
• Published 07/31/2006

Judges

• CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge., Before:  WALKER, Chief Judge, FEINBERG and CARDAMONE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert G. Scott, Jr., Washington, DC (T. Scott Thompson, Maria C. Moran, Cole, Raywid & Braverman, LLP, Washington, DC;  J. Michael Gottesman, New York, New York) of counsel, for Plaintiff-Appellant., Joel Marcus, Washington, D.C. (Samuel L. Feder, General Counsel, Daniel M. Armstrong, Associate General Counsel, Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC), of counsel, filed a brief on behalf of the Federal Communications Commission as amicus curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bruce Regal, New York, New York (Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, Pamela Seider Dolgow, Diana M. Murray, John Hogrogian, New York, New York) of counsel, for Defendants-Appellees.