Case Name: ALLIANCE FOR OPEN SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL, INC., Pathfinder International, Global Health Council, Interaction, Plaintiffs-Appellees, Open Society Institute, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, Rajiv Shah, in his official capacity as Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, and his successors, United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Thomas R. Frieden, in his official capacity as Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and his successors, United States Department of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, in her official capacity as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and her successors, Defendants-Appellants
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2011-07-06
Citations: 678 F.3d 127
Docket Number: Docket No. 08-4917-cv
Parties: ALLIANCE FOR OPEN SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL, INC., Pathfinder International, Global Health Council, Interaction, Plaintiffs-Appellees, Open Society Institute, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, Rajiv Shah, in his official capacity as Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, and his successors, United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Thomas R. Frieden, in his official capacity as Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and his successors, United States Department of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, in her official capacity as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and her successors, Defendants-Appellants.
Judges: Judge RAGGI and Judge LIVINGSTON join, dissenting from the denial of rehearing en banc:
Reporter: Federal Reporter 3d Series
Volume: 678
Pages: 127–134

Head Matter:
ALLIANCE FOR OPEN SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL, INC., Pathfinder International, Global Health Council, Interaction, Plaintiffs-Appellees, Open Society Institute, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, Rajiv Shah, in his official capacity as Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, and his successors, United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Thomas R. Frieden, in his official capacity as Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and his successors, United States Department of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, in her official capacity as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and her successors, Defendants-Appellants.
Docket No. 08-4917-cv.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
Argued: Dec. 9, 2010.
Decided: July 6, 2011.
Opinion on Rehearing: Feb. 2, 2012.
Rebekah Diller, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York, NY (Laura K. Abel, Brennan Center for Justice, NYU School of Law, New York, NY; David W. Bowker, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, D.C.; Jason D. Hirsch, Michael D. Gottesman, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, New York, NY, on the brief), for PlaintiffsAppellees.
Benjamin H. Torrance, Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (David S. Jones, Assistant United States Attorney, of counsel, on the brief) for Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, for Defendants-Appellants.
Named officials have been substituted for their predecessors pursuant to Fed. R. App. P. 43(c)(2).

Opinion:
ROSEMARY S. POOLER, Circuit Judge, concurs by opinion from the denial of rehearing en banc.
JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge, joined by REENA RAGGI and DEBRA ANN LIVINGSTON, Circuit Judges, dissents by opinion from the denial of rehearing en banc.
ORDER
Following disposition of this appeal on July 6, 2011, Defendants-Appellants United States Agency for International Development, et al., filed a petition for rehearing en banc. A poll of the active members of the Court having been conducted, and there being no majority favoring en banc review, rehearing en banc is hereby DENIED.