Judge Debra Ann Livingston

Decided: Feb. 16, 2010; 07-5580-cv

Before: Walker, Livingston, C.J., Kaplan*, D.J.

ELMER ROBERT KEACH, III, Law Office of Elmer Robert Keach III, PC, Amsterdam, New York, JASON J. ROZGER, BRUCE E. MENKEN, Beranbaum, Menken, Ben-Asher & Bierman LLP, New York, NY, JONATHAN WATSON CUNEO, Cuneo, Gilbert & LaDuca, Washington D.C., GARY E. MASON, The Mason Law Firm. Washington D.C., for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

WILLIAM G. GREAGAN, Goldberg Segalla, LLP, Albany, NY, for Defendants-Appellees.

PHILIP K. HOWARD, JENNIFER O. FARINA, Covington & Burling LLP, New York, NY, as Amicus Curiae in support of Defendants-Appellees.