CSX TRANSP. v. NEW YORK STATE OFFICE OF REAL PROP.

Docket No. 01-7966.

306 F.3d 87 (2002)

CSX TRANSPORTATION, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. NEW YORK STATE OFFICE OF REAL PROPERTY SERVICES, Frank B. Cernese, John M. Bacheller, in their official capacities as members of the New York State Board of Real Property Services and their successors in office, Thomas G. Griffin, in his official capacity as executive director and secretary to the State Office of Real Property Services and his successors in office, and Ifigenia T. Brown, Defendants-Appellants, City of New York, City of Rochester, East Syracuse-Minoa Central School District, North Rockland Central School District, Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk Central School District, Onondaga County, Monroe County, Town of Bethlehem, Town of Cheektowaga, Town of Stony Point and Village of Herkimer, in their own behalf and as representatives of a defendant's class, Defendants, The United States of America, Intervenor.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: September 25, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory G. Fletcher, Baker, Donelson, Bearman & Caldwell, Memphis, TN (James N. Blair, Wolfman, Babbit & King, LLP, New York, NY, on the brief, Courtney G. Hyers, Senior Tax Counsel, CSX Corporation, Richmond, VA, of counsel, David J. Bowling, General Tax Counsel, CSX Corporation, Richmond, VA, of counsel), for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Daniel J. Chepaitis, Assistant Solicitor General, Office Of the Attorney General of the State of New York, New York, N.Y. (Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York, Caitlin J. Halligan, Solicitor General of the State of New York, Michael S. Belohlavek, Deputy Solicitor General of the State of New York), for Defendants-Appellants.

Stephanie R. Marcus, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC (Robert D, McCallum, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, James B. Comey, Jr., United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Mark B. Stern, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, on the brief), for intervenor the United States.

Before MINER and SACK, Circuit Judges, and BERMAN, District Judge.


MINER, Circuit Judge.

Defendant-appellant the New York State Office of Real Property Services ("ORPS") and defendants-appellants Frank B. Cernese, John M. Bacheller, Thomas G. Griffin, and Ifigenia T. Brown (the "Individual Defendants") appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Brieant, J.) denying their motion, based on Eleventh Amendment immunity, for judgment on the pleadings in a declaratory judgment...

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