Opinion
21 MC 100 (AKH), 05 Civ. 7189 (AKH).
June 14, 2006
ORDER
Plaintiff moves, both separately and by joining the motions to remand filed in 21 MC 100 and argued before me on April 6, 2006, to remand the above captioned action to New York State Supreme Court, New York County, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1447(c). Plaintiff alleges personal injuries sustained as a result of a trip and fall accident occurring on May 14, 2002 at Battery Place. Defendant opposes the motion to remand, arguing that the jurisdictional grant of the Air Transportation Safety and System Stabilization Act ("ATSSSA"), Pub.L. No. 107-42, 115 Stat. 230 (2001) (codified at 49 U.S.C. §§ 40101 note), mandates federal jurisdiction over any and all cases "resulting from or relating to" the events of September 11, 2001. Defendant having failed to show any connection, other than geography, between plaintiff's allegeed injury and the events of September 11, I hold that the action is "`too tenuous, remote, or peripheral' . . . to warrant a finding that [that action] `relate[s] to"' the terrorist attacks of September 11 and thus grant Plaintiff's motion to remand. McNally v. The Port Authority (In re WTC Disaster Site), 414 F.3d 352, 380, 92d Cir. 2005).
Plaintiff's motion to remand being granted, the clerk of the court is directed to mark the case as closed.
SO ORDERED.