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13-2908-cv
Anghel v. N.Y. State Dep’t of Health

                                       UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                                          FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT

                                           SUMMARY ORDER
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        At a stated term of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, held at the
Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse, 40 Foley Square, in the City of New York, on the 20th
day of January, two thousand fifteen.

PRESENT:            RALPH K. WINTER,
                    JOSÉ A. CABRANES,
                    REENA RAGGI,
                                 Circuit Judges.

MARIA-LUCIA ANGHEL,

                    Plaintiff-Appellant,

                              v.                                       No. 13-2908-cv

NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, ET AL.

                    Defendants-Appellees.

FOR PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT:                               Maria-Lucia Anghel, pro se, Oceanside, NY.

FOR DEFENDANTS-APPELLEES:                              Barbara D. Underwood, Solicitor General,
                                                       Richard P. Dearing, Deputy Solicitor General,
                                                       Valerie Figueredo, Assistant Solicitor General, for
                                                       Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General of the
                                                       State of New York, New York, NY.

                                                       Joseph L. Clasen, Laura A. Torchio, Robinson &
                                                       Cole LLP, New York, NY.

        Appeal from a judgment and an order of the United States District Court for the Eastern
District of New York (Arthur D. Spatt, Judge).
     UPON DUE CONSIDERATION WHEREOF, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED,
ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that the judgment and order of the District Court are
AFFIRMED.

       Plaintiff Maria-Lucia Anghel, a physician whose New York State medical license was revoked,
proceeding pro se, appeals the District Court’s May 30, 2013 judgment dismissing her claims and its July
20, 2013 order denying her motion for reconsideration. We assume the parties’ familiarity with the
underlying facts, the procedural history of the case, and the issues on appeal.

       We review de novo a district court’s dismissal of a complaint pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil
Procedure 12(b)(1) or 12(b)(6). Jaghory v. New York State Dep’t of Educ., 131 F.3d 326, 329 (2d Cir. 1997).
We review a district court’s denial of reconsideration for abuse of discretion. Johnson v. Univ. of Rochester
Med. Ctr., 642 F.3d 121, 125 (2d Cir. 2011). Upon review of the record and relevant law, we affirm for
substantially the reasons stated in the District Court’s thorough and well-reasoned orders.

        Anghel also moves to vacate all of this Court’s orders, remand for lack of jurisdiction, compel
the District Court to convene a three-judge court, appoint a special prosecutor, issue a temporary
restraining order and reinstate her medical license, and disqualify various judges in this Court and the
District Court. These motions are without merit and all of them are hereby DENIED. We have
already ruled that this Court has jurisdiction over this appeal and that the District Court could not have
convened a three-judge court to adjudicate Anghel’s claims. See 28 U.S.C. § 2284(a); Kalson v. Peterson,
542 F.3d 281, 287 (2d Cir. 2008). Anghel nonetheless has persisted in re-filing meritless motions—no
fewer than twelve on appeal.

                                             CONCLUSION

         We have considered all of Anghel’s arguments on appeal and all of her motions and find them
all to be without merit. Accordingly, we AFFIRM the May 30, 2013 judgment and the July 20, 2013
order of the District Court and DENY Anghel’s motions to vacate all of this Court’s orders, remand
for lack of jurisdiction, compel the District Court to convene a three-judge court, appoint a special
prosecutor, issue a temporary restraining order and reinstate her medical license, and disqualify various
judges in this Court and the District Court.

         Anghel is hereby warned that the filing of additional meritless motions may result in the
imposition of sanctions, including a leave-to-file sanction, under which she would need
permission from a judge of the Court prior to filing any further submission. See In re Martin-
Trigona, 9 F.3d 226, 229 (2d Cir. 1993); Sassower v. Sansverie, 885 F.2d 9, 10 (2d Cir. 1989).

                                                          FOR THE COURT:
                                                          Catherine O’Hagan Wolfe, Clerk

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