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WTC FAMILIES FOR A PROPER BURIAL v. CITY OF N.Y.

No. 05 Civ. 7243(AKH).

567 F.Supp.2d 529 (2008)

WTC FAMILIES FOR A PROPER BURIAL, INC.; Kurt and Diane Horning; Anthony and Gloria Ingrassia; Arthur and Arlene Russo; Jagdish and Indira Bhukhan; Catherine and Albert Regenhard; Monica Gabrielle; Rosemary Cain; Kristen Breitweiser; Mindy Kleinberg; Lorie Van Auken; and Camille and William Doyle, Plaintiffs, v. The CITY OF NEW YORK; Michael R. Bloomberg, Mayor of the City of New York; John J. Doherty, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Sanitation; and Amanda M. Burden, Chair of the New York City Department of City Planning, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

July 7, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven J. Hyman, Aimee Elizabeth Saginaw, McLaughlin and Stern, LLP, New York, NY, Jeffrey Russo, McLaughlin & Stern, LLP, Phillipsburg, NJ, Norman H. Siegel, Norman Siegel, Attorney at Law, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs.

Anthony Joseph Staltari, Latham & Watkins, LLP, James Edward Tyrrell, Jr., Patton Boggs, LLP, Newark, NJ, Michael Douglas Steger, Law Offices of Michael D. Steger, PC, New York, NY, for Defendants.

OPINION GRANTING DEFENDANTS' MOTION TO DISMISS

ALVIN K. HELLERSTEIN, District Judge.

The terrorists of September 11, 2001 murdered 2,749 people in Towers One and Two of the World Trade Center. Approximately 1,100 of the victims perished without leaving a trace, utterly consumed into incorporeality by the intense, raging fires, or pulverized into dust by the massive tons of collapsing concrete and steel. Full bodies were recovered for only 292 victims...

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