NEW YORK STATE RESTAURANT v. NEW YORK CITY BD.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kent A. Yalowitz and Peter L. Zimroth (Nancy G. Milburn, Brandon C. Cowart, Amalia W. Jorns, on the brief), Arnold & Porter LLP, New York, N.Y., for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Fay Ng, Assistant Corporation Counsel, City of New York (Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel, Pamela Seider Dolgow, Mark Muschenheim, Assistant Corporation Counsels, City of New York; Thomas Merrill, General Counsel, N.Y.C. Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees.

David S. Jones, Assistant United States Attorney, Southern District of New York, New York, N.Y. (Michael J. Garcia, United States Attorney, James L. Cott, Assistant United States Attorney, Southern District of New York, New York, N.Y.; Gregory G. Katsas, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Douglas N. Letter, Michael E. Robinson, Attorneys, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice; Thomas R. Barker, Acting General Counsel, Gerald F. Masoudi, Chief Counsel, Food and Drug Division, Karen E. Schifter, Associate Chief Counsel, Office of the General Counsel, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, on the brief), for Amicus Curiae U.S. Food and Drug Administration, in support of Defendants-Appellees.

Deepak Gupta, Brian Wolfman, Public Citizen Litigation Group, for Amici Curiae U.S. Congressman Henry Waxman, Former FDA Commissioner David Kessler, Public Citizen, Center for Science in the Public Interest, American College of Preventive Medicine, American Diabetes Association, American Medical Association, American Public Health Association, California Center for Public Health Advocacy, The Medical Society of the State of New York, Trust for America's Health, Professors of Medicine, Nutrition, and Public Health, in support of Defendants-Appellees.

Dennis J. Herrera, City Attorney, Danny Chou, Chief of Complex and Special Litigation, Tara Steeley, Francesca Gessner, Deputy City Attorneys, City and County of San Francisco, CA, for Amici Curiae City and County of San Francisco, CA; Cities of Philadelphia, PA and West Hollywood, CA; Los Angeles County, CA; King County, WA; Montgomery County, MD; National League of Cities, National Association of County and City Health Officials, and International Municipal Lawyers Association; California State Senators Alex Padilla and Carole Migden, California Assembly Member Mark Desaulnier, New York State Assemblyman Felix Ortiz, Chicago Alderman Edward M. Burke, and Washington D.C. Councilmember Phil Mendelson, in support of Defendants-Appellees.

Brian L. Bromberg, New York, N.Y., for Amici Curiae Robert Post, David Boies Professor of Law, Yale Law School; Jennifer L. Pomeranz, Kelly D. Brownell, Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at Yale University, in support of Defendants-Appellees.

Before POOLER, SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges, and RESTANI, Judge.