United States Second Circuit

An order denying in part and granting in part defendants' motions to dismiss claims for damages against former EPA administrator, and for other relief against EPA for alleged constitutional and statutory violations in the aftermath of the 9/11 disaster, is reversed in part where the district court improperly denied defendants' motion to dismiss: 1) claims of Fifth Amendment substantive due process violations to be free from government-created health risk; and 2) constitutional claims under the Administrative Procedure Act.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/22/2008
• Published 04/22/2008

Judges

• JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge., Before:  NEWMAN and CABRANES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Alisa B. Klein, Civil Division, Ryan D. Nelson, Deputy Asst. Atty. General, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C. (Peter D. Keisler, Asst. Atty. General, Jeffrey S. Bucholz, Principal Deputy Asst. Atty. General, Mark B. Stern, Civil Div., Sue Ellen Wooldridge, Asst. Atty. General, James C. Kilbourne, Robert H. Oakley, Environmental and Natural Resources Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., on the brief), for Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees., Sherrie R. Savett, Philadelphia, PA (Jeanne A. Markey, Michael T. Fantini, Casey M. Preston, Berger & Montague, P.C., Philadelphia, PA;  Joel R. Kupferman, New York Environmental Law & Justice Project, New York, N.Y.;  Bert A. Blitz, Shandell, Blitz, Blitz & Bookson, L.L.P., New York, N.Y., on the brief), for Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross-Appellants.