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IN RE WORLD TRADE CENTER LOWER MANHATTAN SITE

Nos. 15-2181-cv(L) 15-2283-cv(Con) 15-2285-cv(Con) 15-2487-cv(Con) 15-2506-cv(Con) 15-2687-cv(Con) August Term, 2016.

846 F.3d 58 (2017)

IN RE: WORLD TRADE CENTER LOWER MANHATTAN DISASTER SITE LITIGATION. Stanislaw Faltynowicz, Lucyna Foremska, Ruben Acosta, Vladmir Akoulov, Waldemar Balcer, Joaquin Campuzano, Henryk Ciborowski, Jan Dobrowolski, Marek Glowaty, Eugeniusz Jastrzebowski, Zbigniew Kucharski, Maria Moreno, Irena Perzynaska, Marian Retelski, Dariusz Wszolkowski, Boguslaw Zalewski, Plaintiffs-Appellants, State of New York, Intervenor-Appellant, v. Battery Park City Authority, et al., Defendants-Appellees. Santiago Alvear, Plaintiff-Appellant, State of New York, Intervenor-Appellant, v. Battery Park City Authority, Defendant-Appellee. Peter Curley, Mary Ann Curley, Plaintiffs-Appellants, State of New York, Intervenor-Appellant, v. Battery Park City Authority, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: January 19, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

GREGORY J. CANNATA , Gregory J. Cannata & Associates, LLP, New York, New York, for Plaintiffs-Appellants Stanislaw Faltynowicz, Lucyna Foremska, Ruben Acosta, Vladmir Akoulov, Waldemar Balcer, Joaquin Campuzano, Henryk Ciborowski, Jan Dobrowolski, Marek Glowaty, Eugeniusz Jastrzebowski, Zbigniew Kucharski, Maria Moreno, Irena Perzynaska, Marian Retelski, Dariusz Wszolkowski, Boguslaw Zalewski.

PAUL J. NAPOLI ( Michael Cohan , on the brief), Worby Groner Edelman & Napoli Bern, LLP, New York, New York, for Plaintiffs-Appellants Santiago Alvear, Peter Curley, Mary Ann Curley.

ANDREW W. AMEND , Senior Assistant Solicitor General ( Barbara D. Underwood , Steven C. Wu , Eric Del Pozo , on the brief), for Eric T. Schneiderman , Attorney General for the State of New York, New York, New York, for Intervenor-Appellant State of New York.

JOHN M. FLANNERY ( Eliza M. Scheibel , on the brief), Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP, White Plains, New York, for Defendant-Appellee Battery Park City Authority.

Before: Lynch, Droney, Circuit Judges, and Reiss, Chief District Judge.

This appeal requires us to determine whether Battery Park City Authority ("BPCA"), a public benefit corporation, has the capacity to challenge a New York State claim-revival statute as unconstitutional under the New York State Constitution, and whether that challenge succeeds on the merits. As we explain below, we believe...

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