Schoenefeld v. State of New York

HALL, Circuit Judge:

Defendants-Appellants appeal from the September 7, 2011 judgment of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York (Lawrence E. Kahn, J.) granting Plaintiff-Appellee’s cross-motion for summary judgment and declaring New York Judiciary Law § 470 (“Section 470”) unconstitutional as violative of the Privileges and Immunities Clause of Article IV, section 2 of the Constitution. Specifically, the district court held that Section 470, which requires nonresident attorneys to maintain an “office for the transaction of law business” within the state of New…