Court Opinion

ID: 615654
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Date Created: 2011-10-20 14:42:21+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:50:34.539520
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10-3868 & 10-3875
     Scherman v. N.Y. State Banking Dep’t

                           UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                               FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT

                                       SUMMARY ORDER
     RULINGS BY SUMMARY ORDER DO NOT HAVE PRECEDENTIAL EFFECT. CITATION TO A SUMMARY ORDER FILED
     ON OR AFTER JANUARY 1, 2007, IS PERMITTED AND IS GOVERNED BY FEDERAL RULE OF APPELLATE
     PROCEDURE 32.1 AND THIS COURT’S LOCAL RULE 32.1.1. WHEN CITING A SUMMARY ORDER IN A
     DOCUMENT FILED WITH THIS COURT, A PARTY MUST CITE EITHER THE FEDERAL APPENDIX OR AN
     ELECTRONIC DATABASE (WITH THE NOTATION “SUMMARY ORDER”). A PARTY CITING A SUMMARY ORDER MUST
     SERVE A COPY OF IT ON ANY PARTY NOT REPRESENTED BY COUNSEL.

 1             At a stated term of the United States Court of Appeals
 2        for the Second Circuit, held at the Daniel Patrick Moynihan
 3        United States Courthouse, 500 Pearl Street, in the City of
 4        New York, on the 20th day of October, two thousand eleven.
 5
 6        PRESENT: DENNIS JACOBS,
 7                               Chief Judge,
 8                 JON O. NEWMAN,
 9                 GERARD E. LYNCH,
10                               Circuit Judges.
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13        DEBORAH ANN SCHERMAN,
14                 Plaintiff-Appellant,
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16                            v.                            10-3868, 10-3875
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18        NEW YORK STATE BANKING DEPARTMENT,
19                 Defendant-Appelle.
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23        FOR APPELLANT:                       Deborah Ann Scherman, pro se,
24                                             Tobyhanna, PA.
25
26        FOR APPELLEES:                       Matthew W. Grieco, Assistant
27                                             Solicitor General, Benjamin N.
28                                             Gutman, Deputy Solicitor

                                                  1
 1                              General, Barbara D. Underwood,
 2                              Solicitor General, for Eric T.
 3                              Schneiderman, Attorney General
 4                              of the State of New York, New
 5                              York, NY.
 6
 7        Appeal from judgments of the United States District
 8   Court for the Southern District of New York (Batts, J.).
 9
10        UPON DUE CONSIDERATION, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED
11   AND DECREED that the judgments of the district court be
12   AFFIRMED.
13
14        Appellant Deborah Ann Scherman, proceeding pro se,
15   appeals from separate district court judgments (1) granting
16   the motion of the New York State Banking Department to
17   dismiss her employment discrimination complaint raising
18   claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, 42
19   U.S.C. § 12112 et seq., for lack of subject matter
20   jurisdiction; and (2) sua sponte dismissing for lack of
21   subject matter jurisdiction her employment discrimination
22   complaint raising claims under the Age Discrimination in
23   Employment Act of 1967, 29 U.S.C. § 621 et seq. We assume
24   the parties’ familiarity with the underlying facts, the
25   procedural history of the case, and the issues on appeal.
26
27        In reviewing the dismissal of a complaint for lack of
28   subject matter jurisdiction pursuant to FED. R. CIV. P.
29   12(b)(1), we review factual findings for clear error and
30   legal conclusions de novo. See Morrison v. Nat'l Austl.
31   Bank Ltd., 547 F.3d 167, 170 (2d Cir. 2008). Additionally,
32   we review de novo the sua sponte dismissal of a complaint
33   for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. See Digitel, Inc.
34   v. MCI Worldcom, Inc., 239 F.3d 187, 190 (2d Cir. 2001).
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36        Liberally construed, Scherman’s briefs appear to
37   dispute the district court’s application of Eleventh
38   Amendment state sovereign immunity to bar her claims.
39   Having conducted an independent and de novo review of the
40   record and case law, we affirm the district court’s
41   judgments for substantially the same reasons stated by the
42   district court in its decisions issued in S.D.N.Y. No. 09-
43   cv-2476 and S.D.N.Y. No. 10-cv-1246 and by the magistrate
44   judge in S.D.N.Y. No. 09-cv-2476. Any other challenges to
45   the judgments on appeal have been abandoned. See LoSacco v.
46   City of Middletown, 71 F.3d 88, 92-93 (2d Cir. 1995)
47   (holding that issues not raised in a pro se brief were

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 1   abandoned). Although the district court did not conclude
 2   that granting Scherman leave to amend her complaints would
 3   have been futile, see Branum v. Clark, 927 F.2d 698, 705 (2d
 4   Cir. 1991), we have reached that conclusion independently.
 5
 6        Accordingly, the judgment of the district court is
 7   hereby AFFIRMED.
 8
 9        Additionally, Scherman’s motion to supplement the
10   record is hereby DENIED, as she has failed to make the
11   required showing for supplementation of the record, see FED.
12   R. APP. P. 10(e)(2), and, in any event, the supplemental
13   documents would not change the result.
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16                              FOR THE COURT:
17                              CATHERINE O’HAGAN WOLFE, CLERK
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