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Timestamp: 2013-12-12 16:57:04
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 66', '§ 7651', 'art. 1', '§ 8', '§ 7401', '§ 7651']

338 F.3d 82: Clean Air Markets Group, Plaintiff-appellee, v. George E. Pataki, in His Official Capacity As Governor of the State of New York, Maureen O'donnell Helmer, in Her Capacity As Chairman of the New York State Public Service Commission, Thomas J. Dunleavy, in His Capacity As a Commissioner of the New York State Public Service Commission, James D. Bennett, in His Capacity As a Commissioner of the New York State Public Service Commission, Leonard A. Weiss, in His Capacity As a Commissioner of the New York State Public Service Commission, and Neal N. Gavin, in His Capacity As a Commissioner of the New York State Public Service Commission, Defendants-appellants, :: US Court of Appeals Cases :: Justia
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338 F.3d 82: Clean Air Markets Group, Plaintiff-appellee, v. George E. Pataki, in His Official Capacity As Governor of the State of New York, Maureen O'donnell Helmer, in Her Capacity As Chairman of the New York State Public Service Commission, Thomas J. Dunleavy, in His Capacity As a Commissioner of the New York State Public Service Commission, James D. Bennett, in His Capacity As a Commissioner of the New York State Public Service Commission, Leonard A. Weiss, in His Capacity As a Commissioner of the New York State Public Service Commission, and Neal N. Gavin, in His Capacity As a Commissioner of the New York State Public Service Commission, Defendants-appellants,United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. - 338 F.3d 82
Decided: August 1, 2003
PETER LEHNER, Assistant Attorney General (Robert Rosenthal, Assistant Attorney General, Denise A. Hartman, Assistant Solicitor General, and Caitlin J. Halligan, Solicitor General, of counsel; Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General, on the brief), Albany, NY, for Defendant-Appellant George E. Pataki.
DIANE T. DEAN, Assistant Counsel (Lawrence G. Malone, General Counsel, on the brief), Public Service Commission of the State of New York, Albany, NY, for Defendants-Appellants Helmer, Dunleavy, Bennett, Weiss, and Galvin.
NORMAN W. FICHTHORN (Allison D. Wood, on the brief) Hunton & Williams, Washington, D.C. for Plaintiff-Appellee.
Before: WINTER and CABRANES, Circuit Judges, and AMON,* District Judge.
Defendants appeal from an April 9, 2002 judgment of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York (David N. Hurd, Judge) granting summary judgment to plaintiff-appellee Clean Air Markets Group ("CAMG"). The District Court held that New York's Air Pollution Mitigation Law, N.Y. Pub. Serv. L. § 66-k ("section 66-k"), is preempted by Title IV of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 ("Title IV"), 42 U.S.C. §§ 7651-7651o, and therefore violates the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution, U.S. Const. art. VI, cl. 2. The District Court also concluded that New York's Air Pollution Mitigation Law violates the Commerce Clause of the Constitution. U.S. Const. art. 1, § 8, cl. 3.
For the following reasons, we agree with the District Court that section 66-k is preempted by the Clean Air Act, and we therefore decline to review the District Court's conclusion that section 66-k violates the Commerce Clause of the Constitution.
We assume familiarity with the relevant facts, which have been set forth in detail by the District Court. See Clean Air Markets Group v. Pataki ("CAMG"), 194 F.Supp.2d 147, 151-54 (N.D.N.Y.2002). Accordingly, for purposes of this appeal we restate only the facts necessary to our disposition, viewing them in the light most favorable to the defendants, see, e.g., Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., 477 U.S. 242, 255, 106 S.Ct. 2505, 91 L.Ed.2d 202 (1986).
In 1990, Congress amended the Clean Air Act of 1970, 42 U.S.C. §§ 7401 et seq. Title IV of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 has the express purpose of "reduc[ing] the adverse effects of acid deposition through reductions in annual emissions of sulfur dioxide." 42 U.S.C. § 7651(b). According to Title IV's statement of purpose, "it is the intent of [Title IV] to effectuate such reductions ... through ... an emission allocation and transfer system." Id. In other word