NATIONAL R.R. PASSENGER CORP. v. McDONALD

Docket No. 13-4161-cv.

779 F.3d 97 (2015)

NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Joan McDONALD, Commissioner, The New York State Department of Transportation, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: February 24, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kathleen M. Sullivan ( Christopher E. Kulawik , on the brief), Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, New York, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Cecelia C. Chang , Special Counsel ( Barbara D. Underwood , Solicitor General, Andrew W. Amend & Mark H. Shawhan , Assistant Solicitors General, of counsel), on the brief for Eric T. Schneiderman , Attorney General of the State of New York, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before: WINTER, RAGGI, and CARNEY, Circuit Judges.


The National Railroad Passenger Corporation ("Amtrak") appeals from Judge McMahon's grant of summary judgment dismissing its federal Supremacy Clause claims brought against Joan McDonald, Commissioner of the New York State Department of Transportation (the "Commissioner"). Amtrak's complaint claimed that, in light of federal...

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