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Michael J. WANG, M.D., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES MEDICAL LICENSE EXAMINATION SECRETARIAT, Defendant-Appellee, Federation of State Medical Boards, National Board of Medical Examiners, Interested Parties.
    No. 06-1084-cv.
    United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
    Nov. 21, 2006.
    Michael J. Wang, South Setauket, NY, pro se.
    Silvia A. LeBlanc, Esq. (admission pending) Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, Philadelphia, PA, for Defendants-Appellees.
    PRESENT: Hon. ROBERT A. KATZMANN, Hon. RICHARD C. WESLEY and Hon. PETER W. HALL, Circuit Judges.
   SUMMARY ORDER

Plaintiff-appellant Michael J. Wang, pro se, appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Seybert, J.) granting the defendants-appellees’ motion to dismiss his action for lack of capacity. We assume the parties’ familiarity with the underlying facts and procedural history.

The district court was correct to dismiss Wang’s suit, as the named defendant, United States Medical Licensing Examination (“USMLE”), lacked the capacity to sue or be sued under applicable New York state law. See Community Bd. 7 of Borough of Manhattan v. Schaffer, 84 N.Y.2d 148, 155-56, 615 N.Y.S.2d 644, 689 N.E.2d 1 (1994). USMLE is neither a business organization nor a governmental entity, or, for that matter, an organization at all, and is certainly an artificial entity, i.e. not a natural person. There is no New York statutory authority delineating the USMLE’s, or any similar entity’s, power to sue or be sued, and thus no such power exists.

Accordingly, and for the foregoing reasons, the judgment of the district court is hereby AFFIRMED.