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COUNTY OF ERIE, NEW YORK v. COLGAN AIR, INC.

Docket No. 12-1600-cv.

711 F.3d 147 (2013)

COUNTY OF ERIE, NEW YORK, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. COLGAN AIR, INC., Pinnacle Airlines Corp., Continental Airlines, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: March 4, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James J. Duggan , Duggan & Bentivogli LLP, Williamsville, NY ( Michelle Parker , Erie County Attorney's Office, Buffalo, NY, on the brief), for Appellant.

David J. Harrington , Condon & Forsyth LLP, New York, NY ( Neil A. Goldberg , Goldberg Segalla LLP, Buffalo, NY; Oliver K. Beiersdorf , Reed Smith LLP, New York, NY; Patrick E. Bradley , Reed Smith LLP, Princeton, NJ, on the brief), for Appellees.

David A. Berg , Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Douglas Mullen , Assistant General Counsel, Airlines for America, Washington, D.C.; Mark E. McGrath , M. Roy Goldberg , Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae Airlines for America in support of Appellees.

Before: JOHN M. WALKER, JR., CABRANES, AND WESLEY, Circuit Judges.

WESLEY, Circuit Judge:

After the February 12, 2009 crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407 on approach to Buffalo-Niagara International Airport, plaintiff-appellant County of Erie, New York ("the County") sued defendants-appellees Colgan Air, Inc., Pinnacle Airlines Corp., and Continental Airlines, Inc. (collectively "defendants") to recover its expenditures in responding to, and cleaning up after, the accident. The United States District Court for the Western...

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