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Gratt v. Etour and Travel, Inc.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
Oct 2, 2009
347 F. App'x 707 (2d Cir. 2009)

Opinion

No. 08-3511-cv.

October 2, 2009.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Block, J.).

ON CONSIDERATION WHEREOF, it is hereby ORDERED, ADJUDGED, and DECREED that the judgment of the district court be and hereby is AFFIRMED.

Todd C. Bank, Kew Gardens, NY, for appellant.

Ira M. Saxe, Crowell Moring, LLP, New York, N.Y. (Richard J. Capriola, Weinstock Scavo, P.C., Atlanta, GA, Frank M. Esposito, Crowell Moring, LLP, New York, NY, on the brief), for appellees ETour and Travel, Inc., Kosmas Group International, Inc., Nicholas Kosmas, Robert P. Kosmas, and Steven P. Kosmas.

Richard E. Lerner (Debra A. Adler, on the brief), Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman Dicker LLP, New York, NY, for appellee King's Creek Plantation, L.L.C.

Present: WALKER, ROBERT A. KATZMANN, JANE R. ROTH, Circuit Judges.

The Honorable Jane R. Roth, of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, sitting by designation.


SUMMARY ORDER

Plaintiff-Appellant Kevin Gratt appeals from a judgment of the district court dated September 14, 2007, 2007 WL 2693903, which dismissed, for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, his putative class action. We assume the parties' familiarity with the facts, procedural history, and specification of issues on appeal.

As Gratt concedes, his argument that a federal court should not apply N.Y. CPLR 901(b) (providing that "an action to recover a penalty, or minimum measure of recovery created or imposed by statute may not be maintained as a class action" unless the "statute creating or imposing [the] penalty, or [the] minimum measure of recovery specifically authorizes the recovery thereof in a class action") to putative class actions brought in federal courts in New York under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, 47 U.S.C. § 227, is squarely foreclosed by our decision in Bonime v. Avaya, Inc., 547 F.3d 497 (2d Cir. 2008). "Generally, this court is bound by a decision of a prior panel unless and until its rationale is overruled, implicitly or expressly, by the Supreme Court or this court en banc We have also observed that we may depart from a prior decision when it merely has been called into question by an intervening United States Supreme Court decision." Consol. Edison Co. of N.Y. v. UGI Utils., Inc., 423 F.3d 90, 101 n. 12 (2d Cir. 2005) (internal quotation marks omitted). Gratt does not argue that any such intervening en banc decision exists. Further, although Gratt cites Haywood v. Drown, ___ U.S. ___, 129 S.Ct. 2108, 173 L.Ed.2d 920 (2009), as a relevant intervening Supreme Court decision, Haywood does not call into question the rationale of Bonime. Accordingly, we are bound to apply Bonime.

For the foregoing reasons, the judgment of the district court is AFFIRMED.


Summaries of

Gratt v. Etour and Travel, Inc.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
Oct 2, 2009
347 F. App'x 707 (2d Cir. 2009)
Case details for

Gratt v. Etour and Travel, Inc.

Case Details

Full title:Kevin GRATT, Individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated…

Court:United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit

Date published: Oct 2, 2009

Citations

347 F. App'x 707 (2d Cir. 2009)