United States Second Circuit

Judgment enjoining state defendants to supervise New York City officials' compliance with specified obligations under the Food Stamp Act is reversed where the record does not support the imposition of liability on the state or warrant the issuance of a permanent injunction against it.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/05/2007
• Decided 10/31/2007
• Published 10/31/2007

Judges

• Before:  CARDAMONE, STRAUB, and WALLACE , Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Richard Dearing, Assistant Solicitor General, New York, New York (Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General, Michael S. Belohlavek, Senior Counsel, Division of Appeals and Opinions, James M. Hershler, Assistant Attorney General of the State of New York, New York, New York, of counsel), for State Defendants-Appellants., Marc Cohan, Henry A. Freedman Welfare Law Center, Inc., New York, New York (Petra T. Tasheff, Henry A. Freedman Welfare Law Center, Inc., New York, New York;  Yisroel Schulman, Constance P. Carden, Randal S. Jeffrey, New York Legal Assistance Group, New York, New York;  Scott A. Rosenberg, Christopher D. Lamb, Hwan-Hui Helen Lee, The Legal Aid Society, Civil Division, New York, New York;  Kenneth Rosenfeld, Mary Ellen Burns, Northern Manhattan Improvement Corp., New York, New York, of counsel), for Plaintiffs-Appellees.