United States Second Circuit

In an action challenging the constitutionality of a law requiring restaurants to post caloric information on menus, the District Court's denial of plaintiff's motions for preliminary injunction, declaratory relief, and summary judgment, and grant of defendant's motion for summary judgment, are affirmed where New York Health Code 81.50: 1) is not expressly preempted by the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990; and 2) does not infringe on plaintiff's member restaurants' First Amendment rights.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/17/2009
• Published 02/17/2009

Judges

• POOLER, Circuit Judge:, Before POOLER, SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges, and RESTANI, Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Kent A. Yalowitz and Peter L. Zimroth (Nancy G. Milburn, Brandon C. Cowart, Amalia W. Jorns, on the brief), Arnold & Porter LLP, New York, N.Y., for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Fay Ng, Assistant Corporation Counsel, City of New York (Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel, Pamela Seider Dolgow, Mark Muschenheim, Assistant Corporation Counsels, City of New York;  Thomas Merrill, General Counsel, N.Y.C. Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees., David S. Jones, Assistant United States Attorney, Southern District of New York, New York, N.Y. (Michael J. Garcia, United States Attorney, James L. Cott, Assistant United States Attorney, Southern District of New York, New York, N.Y.;  Gregory G. Katsas, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Douglas N. Letter, Michael E. Robinson, Attorneys, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice;  Thomas R. Barker, Acting General Counsel, Gerald F. Masoudi, Chief Counsel, Food and Drug Division, Karen E. Schifter, Associate Chief Counsel, Office of the General Counsel, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, on the brief), for Amicus Curiae U.S. Food and Drug Administration, in support of Defendants-Appellees., Deepak Gupta, Brian Wolfman, Public Citizen Litigation Group, for Amici Curiae U.S. Congressman Henry Waxman, Former FDA Commissioner David Kessler, Public Citizen, Center for Science in the Public Interest, American College of Preventive Medicine, American Diabetes Association, American Medical Association, American Public Health Association, California Center for Public Health Advocacy, The Medical Society of the State of New York, Trust for America's Health, Professors of Medicine, Nutrition, and Public Health, in support of Defendants-Appellees., Dennis J. Herrera, City Attorney, Danny Chou, Chief of Complex and Special Litigation, Tara Steeley, Francesca Gessner, Deputy City Attorneys, City and County of San Francisco, CA, for Amici Curiae City and County of San Francisco, CA;  Cities of Philadelphia, PA and West Hollywood, CA;  Los Angeles County, CA;  King County, WA;  Montgomery County, MD;  National League of Cities, National Association of County and City Health Officials, and International Municipal Lawyers Association;  California StateSenators Alex Padilla and Carole Migden, California AssemblyMember Mark Desaulnier, New York StateAssemblyman Felix Ortiz, Chicago AldermanEdward M. Burke, and Washington D.C. Councilmember Phil Mendelson, in support of Defendants-Appellees., Brian L. Bromberg, New York, N.Y., for Amici Curiae Robert Post, David Boies Professor of Law, Yale Law School;  Jennifer L. Pomeranz, Kelly D. Brownell, Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at Yale University, in support of Defendants-Appellees.