N.Y. PET WELFARE ASSOCIATION v. CITY OF NEW YORK

Docket No. 15-4013-cv. August Term, 2016.

850 F.3d 79 (2017)

NEW YORK PET WELFARE ASSOCIATION, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF NEW YORK, New York City Council, Corey Johnson, individually and in his capacity as New York City Councilman, Elizabeth S. Crowley, individually and in her capacity as New York City Councilwoman, Defendants-Appellees, Linda B. Rosenthal, individually and in her capacity as New York State Assembly Member, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: March 2, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

JEFFREY M. POLLOCK , ( Nancy Elizabeth Halpern , on the brief), Fox Rothschild LLP, Lawrenceville, NJ ( James M. Lemonedes , Fox Rothschild LLP, New York, NY, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellant.

BENJAMIN WELIKSON , of Counsel ( Zachary W. Carter , Corporation Counsel, Richard Dearing , Assistant Corporation Counsel, Devin Slack , of Counsel, on the brief), City of New York, New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellees.

S. REID KAHN , Kane Kessler, P.C., New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae The Humane Society of the United States.

Before: Leval and Lohier, Circuit Judges, and Korman, District Judge.


Home to more than a million dogs and cats,1 New York City (collectively with two individual defendants, "the City") has long worked to address a tangle of problems surrounding the companion animal business — including irresponsible breeding of animals destined for the City market...

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