The Honorable J. Garvan Murtha, Senior Judge of the United States Distr ict Court for the * Di s tr ict of Vermo nt , s it ti ng b y de s ign ati on

. 1 09- 0672- cv H enr y v. U ni t ed Parc el Ser vi ce, I nc.

1 UN ITED STA TES CO URT OF AP P EALS 2 F OR TH E S ECO N D CI RCU IT 3
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## SUMMA RY ORDER
5 6 Rulings by summ ary ord er do no t have precedent ial effect. Citatio n to sum mary or ders 7 filed on or

after January 1, 2007, is permit ted and is governed by F ederal Rule of Appellate 8 Pr ocedure 32.1 and thi s court’s Local Rule 32.1 .1. When citing a summ ary ord er in a docu ment 9 file d wit h t hi s co ur t, a p ar ty m us t c it e ei th er

th e F ed er al

App en di x o r

anel ect r on ic da ta ba se 10 (withthe not ation “sum mary or der”) . A party citin g a summar y order must serve a copy of it 11 on any part

y not r epresented by cou nsel. 12 13 At a stated term of the Un ited Stat es Court of Appeals for t he Second Circuit , held at th e 14 Daniel Pat rick Moynihan Un ited Stat es Courthouse, 500 Pearl St reet, in t he City of New York, 15 on the twenty- sixth day of May, two th ousand and t en. 16 17 PR E SE NT: 18 19 J OS É A. C AB R ANES , 20 R O BERT A. K A T ZMA NN , 21 Circuit Jud ges , 22 J. GA R V A N M UR T HA , 23 District Judge. * 24 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -x 25 GARY H EN RY , 26 27 Pl

aint iff -A ppella nt , 28 29 -v .- No . 09 -0 672 -c v 30 31 U NI T ED P ARCEL S ERVI CE , I NC ., 32 33 Defenda nt-App ellee

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P LAIN TIF F

- AP P ELLAN T: Gar y He nr y, Wes t I s lip , N Y, pro se

. 37 38 FOR DEF ENDANTS-APP ELL EES: Ric hard J. Rabin, A kin Gump 39 Str aus s Hau er & F eld , L LP , N ew 40 Yor k, N Y. 412 1 Appea l from a February 6, 2009 judgment of the United Sta tes Dis trict Court for the Ea stern 2 Di s tr

ict of New Yor k ( Le on ar d D . Wex ler
, Judge

). 3 4 UPON DUE CONSIDERAT ION, IT IS HEREB Y ORDERED, A DJUDGED, AND 5 DE CRE ED th at the j ud gm ent of th e Di s tr ict Cou r t b e AF F IRME D

. 6 7 Pl ain ti ff

-a pp ell ant Gar y He nr y ( “pl ain ti ff

” or “He nr y”)
, pro se, ap peal s fr omth e Di s tr ict Cou r t’ s 8 or der

di s mi s s ing the c om pl ain t i n his s ui t s eeki ng t o v acat e an a r bi tr ati onawar d i n f avo r of hi s fo r mer 9 employe r, defendant-appelle e United Parce l Service , Inc. (“UPS”). We assume the parties’ familiarity 10 with the f

act s , p r oce du r al his to ry, an d i s s ues onapp eal. 11 12 We r evi ew de novo th e Di s tr ict Cou r t’ s dec is io n dis mi s s ing a co mp lai nt pu r s uan t t o Rule 1 2(

b) (6 ). 13 See Cham bers v. T

ime W arner, Inc. , 282 F.3d 147, 15 2 (2d Cir. 2002). “To survive dismis sal, [a] plai ntiff 14 mu s t p r ov

id e the gr ou nd s up onwhi ch his clai m r es ts th r ough f actual all egat io ns s uf fi cien t ‘ to r ais e a 15 r igh t t o r eli ef

abo ve the s pec ul ati

ve l evel .’ ” AT

SI Co mms. , I nc. v. Shaar Fu nd, Lt d. , 49 3 F .3d87, 98 (

2d 16 Cir . 20 07) (quo ti ng Bell A tl . Co rp. v. T

wo mbly , 5 50 U. S. 54 4, 55 5 (20 07 )). W he n a pl ain ti ff p roc ee ds pro se, 17 as here, we a re “obliged to c onstrue his pleading s liberally, pa rticularly whe n they al lege civil rights 18 vio lat

io ns .” Mc Eac hin v . M cG uinn is , 357 F.3d 197, 20 0 (2d Cir. 2004). 19 20 Af

te r con du ct ing anin dep end ent

r evi ew o f the r eco r d an d case la w, we co nclud e, s ub s tan ti ally 21 fo r th e r eas on s s tat ed i n i ts well -r eas on ed o r der
, see Henry v. Uni t ed Parcel Serv

., Inc. , 60 2 F . Supp . 2d419 22 (E.D.N.Y. 2 009), that the District Court’s dismis sal of plaintiff’s complaint was free of err or. 23 24 CONCLUSI ON 25 26 We ha ve considered ea ch of defendant’s arguments on appea l and find them to be without merit. 27 For the reasons s tated above , we A FFI RM the judgment of the District Court. 28 29 30 FOR THE C OU R

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31 Ca therine O’Haga n Wolfe, C lerk of Court

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