CLOSE v. STATE OF N.Y.

No. 1248, Docket 96-9252.

125 F.3d 31 (1997)

James Edwin CLOSE, James R. Collins, Lawrence G. Clare, William G. Hastback, Richard T. Lepkowski, Patricia E. O'Connor, James V. Bradley, Gerard C. Letendre, Edward Woltmann, Gerard E. Black, Ruben F. Enriquez, Robert C. Knizek, Karen C. Ore, Vincent Rapacciuolo, William Toffenetti, Joshua Weiss, Edgar J. Robinson, Elton Jay Dietrich, Nicholas Adams, Charles Antzak, Thomas A. Atlas, Matthew Bewtiuegna, Michael J. Berman, Raymond Bordoni, Wayne G. Borek, Charles R. Bradley, Jr., John J. Calagna, Albert Caronia, Ronald M. Cerniglia, Thomas O. Carey, Stephen Cohen, William F. Coleman, Leo T. Connolly, Carl Cornelius, Michael T. Cotton, Robert L. Covel, Donald F. Darmer, Vijaya Deshpande, Kathleen R. Dick, Michael E. Doody, John J. Dowling, Nathan Erlbaum, James Evensen, Roy Fuller, Jerome L. Gershenson, Daniel D. Gottlieb, L. Daniel Gorritz, Patricia Grabianowski, David N. Green, Paul R. Greenfield, Ben Grey, Robert Hansen, William C. Heilmann, Eric R. Heim, Mary Iandiorio, Robert H. Jones, Michael J. Kanuk, Neville Kerr, Frank A. Klinowski, Jeffrey W. Kimmer, Melisande Kopp, Richard J. Kotecki, Nancy A. Kunz, Roseanne S. Krytak, Sandra Liburd, Sue M. Malatesta, Ralph A. Marcucio, John E. Marsden, Peter J. Martinelli, John Mason, Matthew Mazzamurro, Paul E. McAnany, Walter F. McGuire, Mary E. McIntosh, Daryll K. Messner, Lillian M. Milne, Frank Montemarano, Stephen J. Moore, C. Kelley Morgan, Eileen M. O'Brien, Hugh D. O'Rourke, Ronald C. Palumbo, Walter J. Parish, Anthony M. Piscitelli, Paul Polansky, James Quinn, Amparo B. Quizon, Theodore M. Raab, Gideon Rabino, Edward Ratowsky, Richard A. Rink, Don E. Russell, Celia M. Sagullo, Adolfo Santiago, Ann B. Sartoris, Judith L. Schoonover, Jeffrey A. Schulkind, Ralph Schwartz, James W. Sefren, Owen P. Shevlin, Jr., Leonard Siegel, Robert P. Snyder, Sr., Larry A. Solomon, Charles Subelka, Koon S. Tang, Sajni M. Thadani, MaryEllen Tobin, Wayne R. Ugolk, Quentin G. Vannortwictk, Thomas R. Verburg, Sarah E. Washington, Allan Wasserman, Lawrence R. Watts, Trina L. Weisman, Carl P. Wiedemann, Ronald G. Wierzbicki, John R. Williams, Donald Zacchea, George Zaferes, Edward G. Abelson, Virginia K. Adams, Rebecca Jean Anderson, Harvey Arnett, Robert E. Arnold, Kathleen M. Ashline, Charles G. Awalt, Roy D. Bailey, Dennis A. Balson, Jeffrey Baseel, Victor Batorsky, Steven Baum, Wayne R. Bayer, Arthur Berger, Michael J. Berman, Barbara Berman, Susan D. Biscup, Edward P. Blackmer, David D. Blair, Andris Blumbergs, Marianne J. Bono, Steven R. Botsford, Joan E. Boyd, Paula Bradwell, Johathan M. Brandes, Michael Brinkman, Susan Bubb, Donald H. Cadwell, Peter Campbell, Philip Anthony Casoria, Kevin J. Casutto, Salvatore V. Catena, Philip H. Chase, Louis A. Chiarella, Kenneth Chieu, Karen Chytalo, D. Frank Coates, Jeanne A. Compitello, Judy A. Cooper, John Daniel Corcoran, Vincent J. Corcoran, Michael Corso, Donald J. Csaposs, Gail Arden Culver, Thomas A. D'Ambrosia, Richard F. Darius, Michael Daskalakis, Diane T. Dean, Jennifer J. Dean, Barbara Dell 'Acqua, William Mark Derespino, Lester J. Dier, Leonard Dimon, Mary Ellen Dix, James R. Dolan, Edward F. Dombroski, Sere Jacques Dos, Michele Drugan, Frank Jon Duda, Luann Evans, Robert S. Evans, Lois M. Fairchild, David J. Fallon, William Fedoryk, Douglas P. Ferguson, William F. Fighter, Bruce W. Finster, Richard J. Fischer, M.D., Scott J. Foti, Richard J. Frakes, Mark Friedlander, Lawrence Friedman, Wayne E. Fuhrman, George Gaborow, Frank Gannon, Charles F. Gardephe, Robert A. Gebhardt, Joel H. Gedell, Wayne E. Georgia, Joseph Giammichele, Marilyn Gimber, Barry J. Gloeckner, Keith D. Goertz, Mark Goldhaber, Stephen Granger, James A. Gray, Barbara J.S. Greenberg, Ira M. Gross, Charlene Gurian, Judith A. Hall, Francis Hamblin, Charles T. Hamilton, Mark J. Harris, Michael M. Hayden, Patrick T. Hayes, Deborah J. Heaphy, James M. Heekin, Joseph Hein, Gerald K. Heitzman, Thomas E. Herkenham, William D. Hewson, Keven R. Hintz, David E. Hodgkins, Maureen D. Hoffa, Patricia Hopp, Martin B. Moran, Nancy L. Hotaling, George W. Howard, Betty Ann Hughes, Gayle D. Hull, Lawrence Hunter, Nancy L. Huss, Craig D. Jackson, Craig S. Jackson, George A. Jackson, Richard H. Jacobs, Roberta Jainchill, John F. Kaminsky, Stephen Karnath, Bruce B. Kastor, Michael T. Keenan, William M. Kelly, Gregory M. Ketz, Kenneth F. Keutmann, Edward J. Kingsley, Jonathan S. Klob, Mark A. Klotz, Edward A. Kokalas, Michael J. Komoroske, Lydia J. Kosinski, Henry J. Kuczynski, Tae S. Kwon, Khin M. Kyi, M.D., Francis P. Lahey, Ellen Laquire, John J. Lavalle, Raymond Lawrence, Anastasia D. Leach, Edmina C. Lee, Mike Lepore, Orest Lewinter, Donnie Lewis, Geneva M. Lewis, Mark B. Lewis, Gerald H. Liepshutz, Jeanne V. Linden, Dennis J. Lucia, Ann F. Lundin, Samuel J. Mark, M. Charles Markham, Donald W. Marley, Lamont A. Martin, Jonathan Maskin, Anthony Mauro, Susan D. McCormick, Mark A. McDermott, Michael P. McDermott, Raymond T. McDougall, Michael J. McGarry, Charles R. McHugh, Jr., Carlton J. Meadows, Anthony J. Memoli, Steve Merr, Thomas O. Middlebrook, Peter R. Miller, Stephen R. Mooradian, Kenneth V. Moore, Terry L. Moore, James C. Moragne, Ralph Morgenstern, Albert H. Muench, Brian R. Murphy, John P. Murphy, James E. Murray, Mario Musso, Lawrence A. Myers, Jerold A. Nadel, Kevin P. Neary, James F. Nelson, William G. Niezgoda, David Van Nordstrand, Thomas F. Nytch, Paul J. Obernesser, Terrence P. O'Neill, Louis P. Oliva, Karen B. Papandrea, James M. Parmelez, Ronald D. Passmore, David Patten, Arthur D. Perkins, Dale J. Peterson, Peter M. Pettit, Richard A. Phipps, Gerald F. Pietraszek, Andrew H. Placito, Jr., Brian Platt, Melvin Plavin, Edward Powers, Salvatore F. Priore, John C. Proud, Paul E. Pugh, Richard M. Raczkowski, William O. Radley, John T. Raffa, Patrick J. Regan, John N. Reynolds, Michael F. Rivara, Scott A. Rodabaugh, Laurence Ross, Abraham Rozman, Robert J. Rudd, Edward Rudder, John C. Ryan, Theodore P. Ryan, Ann L. Rymski, Philip Salerno, Clifford P. Salo, Nirmala Sankaran, Patricia Markham Santillo, Alan Saperstein, James Santucci, Andrew W. Schellhammer, Harry Scholl, Michael Schongar, Robert K. Scott, Jesse Selzer, Steven Septer, Jesus S. Serrano, Gregory P. Sharlow, Kathleen M. Shea, William M. Shusda, Robert P. Shutter, Larry Signer, Peter W. Silberstein, Richard A. Sill, Don Sislowski, Douglas A. Smith, Gale Smith, Gerald P. Smith, Richard Socher, James P. Soldo, Mark Solomon, Charles J. Stock, Doris D. Stout, Donald A. Streeter, Steven P. Struzinsky, Eleanor Zieske Symeon, Benjamin J. Taylor, Martin Thompson, Elaine Tober, Walter E. Tolcser, Raymond C. Toth, David H. Traynor, Jay T. Trembly, Gale Trentalange, Harvey B. Tress, Jonah Triebwasser, Joseph R. Tuttle, Jacqueline Donovan Unser, John P. Valenti, G. Van Hoesen, Sarah Van Leer, Mark Edgar Van Valkenburg, Santiago Vargas, Maria Velazquez, David Vitale, Edward J. Wade, Philip G. Waite, Carl W. Walls, Vernon B. Walter, Miggie Warms, Stephen R. Warner, Neal P. Warren, H. Gene Washington, Denise Waxman, Alice M. Weber, Wanda F. Webster, Arthur Weiner, Ronald White, Carl C. Widmer, Richard L. Williams, William R. Williams, Jr., Thomas K. Wong, James P. Zabawa, James T. Zampier, Janet Spencer Quinn, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. STATE OF NEW YORK, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided September 4, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lisa M. King, Albany, New York (William P. Seamon, Albany, NY, of counsel), for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Daniel Smirlock, Assistant Attorney General, Albany, NY (Dennis C. Vacco, Attorney General, Peter H. Schiff, Deputy Solicitor General, Nancy A. Spiegel, Assistant Attorney General, Albany, NY, on brief), for Defendant-Appellee.

Before: OAKES, ALTIMARI and JACOBS, Circuit Judges.


ALTIMARI, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs-appellants appeal from an order entered on August 19, 1996 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York (McAvoy, J.) dismissing plaintiffs-appellants' claims for lack of subject matter jurisdiction pursuant to Fed. R.Civ.P. 12(b)(1).

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