Six West Retail Acquisition v. Sony Pictures

Full title: SWEST RETAIL ACQUISITION, INC., Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellant, v…

Court: United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit

Date published: Mar 30, 2005

No. 04-2419 (2d Cir. Mar. 30, 2005)

Opinion

No. 04-2419.

Decided: March 30, 2005.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Loretta A. Preska, Judge).

UPON DUE CONSIDERATION, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the judgment of the district court is AFFIRMED.

Jeffrey H. Howard, Crowell Moring LLP (Clifton S. Elgarten and Kent A. Gardiner, on the brief), Washington, DC, for Appellant.

Gerson A. Zweifach, Williams Connolly LLP (John E. Schmidtlein, Christopher N. Manning, Williams Connolly LLP, Washington, DC; Fredric W. Yerman, Phillip A. Geraci, Kaye Scholer LLP, New York, NY, on the brief), Washington, DC, for Sony Appellees.

Alexander R. Sussman, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver Jacobson LLP (Brian J. Howard and Sima S. Ahuja, on the brief), New York, NY, for Loews Appellees.

PRESENT: WALKER, Chief Judge, MESKILL, and JACOBS, Circuit Judges.

LORETTA A. PRESKA, Judge.

SUMMARY ORDER

Six West Retail Acquisition, Inc. appeals from orders of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Loretta A. Preska, Judge): (1) denying its motion for recusal under 28 U.S.C. § 455, Six West Retail Acquisition, Inc. v. Sony Theatre Mgmt. Corp., No. 97 Civ. 5499, 2003 WL 282187 (S.D.N.Y. Feb. 7, 2003); (2) denying, by an endorsement dated February 14, 2003, its motion for leave to file an amended complaint; and (3) granting appellees' motions for summary judgment, Six West Retail Acquisition, Inc. v. Sony Theatre Mgmt. Corp., No. 97 Civ. 5499, 2004 WL 691680 (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 31, 2004).

Substantially for the reasons stated in the district court's orders and opinions, we AFFIRM.