United States Second Circuit

In a constitutional challenge to two amendments to the New York Workers' Compensation Law, the district court's judgment abstaining from the case is affirmed where Burford abstention was appropriate because federal court intervention would be disruptive of a carefully established state system, and might also yield inconsistent and therefore conflicting results.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/04/2009
• Published 11/04/2009

Judges

• MINER, Circuit Judge:, Before:  MINER, LIVINGSTON, Circuit Judges, and TRAGER, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Evan Glassman, Steptoe & Johnson LLP, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Mark F. Horning, Jeffrey M. Theodore, Mark F. Horning, Steptoe & Johnson LLP, Washington D.C., for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Steven C. Wu (on behalf of Andrew M. Cuomo, New York State Attorney General; Barbara K. Hathaway, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees.