Chapman v. NYS Division for Youth

CourtCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit
DecidedOctober 14, 2008
Docket05-7010
StatusPublished

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Chapman v. NYS Division for Youth, (2d Cir. 2008).

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05-7010-cv Chapman v. NYS Division for Youth

1 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 2 3 FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT 4 5 August Term 2007 6 7 (Argued: October 25, 2007 Decided: October 14, 2008) 8 9 Docket No. 05-7010-cv 10 11 -----------------------------------------------------x 12 13 BRUCE CHAPMAN AND HANDLE WITH CARE BEHAVIOR 14 MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, INC., 15 16 Plaintiffs-Appellants, 17 18 -- v. -- 19 20 NEW YORK STATE DIVISION FOR YOUTH, NEW YORK STATE 21 OFFICE OF CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICE, NEW YORK STATE 22 DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, JOHN JOHNSON, 23 Commissioner of New York State Office of Children and 24 Family Services, and former Commissioner of the New 25 York State Division for Youth, in his official and 26 individual capacity, MARGARET DAVIS, former Director 27 of Training for the New York State Division for 28 Youth, and former Director of Training for New York 29 State Office of Children and Family Services, in her 30 official and individual capacity, PATSY MURRAY, 31 former Associate Training Technician for the New York 32 State Division for Youth, and current position as 33 Trainer for New York State Office of Children and 34 Family Services, in her official and individual 35 capacity, CORNELL UNIVERSITY, JEFFREY LEHMAN, 36 President of Cornell University, in his official and 37 individual capacity, DOCTOR HUNTER RAWLINGS, III, 38 former President of Cornell University, in his 39 official and individual capacity, NEW YORK STATE 40 COLLEGE OF HUMAN ECOLOGY, FAMILY LIFE DEVELOPMENT 41 CENTER, RESIDENTIAL CHILD CARE PROJECT, THERAPEUTIC 42 CRISIS INTERVENTION, MARTHA HOLDEN, Project Director 43 of the Residential Child Care Project and Therapeutic 44 Crisis Intervention Trainer and Coordinator, in her

1 1 official and individual capacity, MICHAEL NUNNO, 2 Project Director of the Residential Child Care 3 Project and Therapeutic Crisis Intervention Trainer 4 and Coordinator, in his official and individual 5 capacity, HILLSIDE CHILDREN’S CENTER, DENNIS 6 RICHARDSON, President and CEO of Hillside Children’s 7 Center, in his official and individual capacity, 8 DOUGLAS BIDLEMAN, Employee of Hillside Children’s 9 Center and Therapeutic Crisis Intervention Trainer, 10 in his official and individual capacity, 11 12 13 Defendants-Cross-Defendants-Appellees. 14 15 -----------------------------------------------------x 16 17 B e f o r e : WALKER, STRAUB, and POOLER, Circuit Judges. 18

19 Plaintiffs-appellants seek review of an order of the United

20 States District Court for the Northern District of New York

21 (David N. Hurd, Judge) dismissing their copyright and antitrust

22 claims pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b) and (c) and declining to

23 exercise supplemental jurisdiction over their state law claims.

24 The district court dismissed plaintiffs’ copyright claims on the

25 basis that a contract unambiguously granted the defendants a

26 perpetual license to copy plaintiffs’ materials. We conclude that

27 the contract is ambiguous, and remand the case for further fact-

28 finding on this issue. With regard to plaintiffs’ antitrust

29 claims, we agree with the district court that plaintiffs have

30 failed to allege a plausible antitrust market. We therefore

31 affirm the district court’s order dismissing plaintiffs’

32 antitrust claims with prejudice.

33 AFFIRMED in part; VACATED and REMANDED in part.

2 1 GUY L. HEINEMANN, Guy L. Heinemann, 2 P.C. (Irene M. Vavulitsky, Guy L. 3 Heinemann, P.C., and Hilary Adler, 4 Law Offices of Hilary Adler, 5 Gardiner, N.Y., on the brief), New 6 York, N.Y., for Plaintiffs- 7 Appellants. 8 9 ANDREA OSER, Assistant Solicitor 10 General (Daniel Smirlock, Deputy 11 Solicitor General, on the brief), 12 for Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General 13 of the State of New York, Albany, 14 N.Y., for Defendants-Appellees, New 15 York State Division for Youth, New 16 York State Department of Social 17 Services; New York State Office of 18 Children & Family Services, John 19 Johnson; Margaret Davis, and Patsy 20 Murray. 21 22 NELSON E. ROTH (Valerie L. Cross 23 and Norma W. Schwab, on the brief) 24 Office of the University Counsel, 25 Ithaca, N.Y., for Defendants- 26 Appellees, Cornell University, 27 Jeffrey Lehman, Hunter Rawlings, 28 III, New York State College of 29 Human Ecology, Family Life 30 Development Center, Residential 31 Child Care Project, Therapeutic 32 Crisis Intervention, Martha Holden, 33 and Michael Nunno. 34 35 DAVID H. WALSH, Petrone & Petrone, 36 P.C., Syracuse, N.Y., for 37 Defendants-Appellees, Hillside 38 Children’s Center, Dennis 39 Richardson, and Douglas Bidleman. 40 41 JOHN M. WALKER, JR., Circuit Judge:

42 Plaintiffs-appellants Bruce Chapman and Handle With Care

43 Behavior Management System, Inc., (collectively “HWC”) market a

44 training program (“Handle With Care”) that teaches individuals a

3 1 safe technique for physically restraining others. HWC sued three

2 groups of defendants alleging generally that they had infringed

3 HWC’s copyright and adversely affected the market for such

4 restraint services in violation of the antitrust laws.

5 Specifically, HWC sued various New York state agencies and

6 their officers and agents (collectively “the state defendants”).

7 The state defendants include: the New York State Office of

8 Children and Family Services (“OCFS”), which in 1998 succeeded

9 the New York State Division for Youth (“DFY”) and the New York

10 State Department of Social Services (“DSS”) also named as

11 defendants; John Johnson, the former Commissioner of DFY and the

12 current Commissioner of OCFS; Margaret Davis, the former Director

13 of Training for DFY and the current Director of Training for

14 OCFS; and Patsy Murray, a former Associate Training Technician

15 for DFY and current Trainer for OCFS.

16 HWC also sued Cornell University and the New York State

17 College of Human Ecology (the “College”) and related persons and

18 entities (collectively “the Cornell defendants”). The Cornell

19 defendants include: Cornell University; Jeffrey Lehman, Cornell’s

20 then-current president; Hunter Rawlings III, Cornell’s former

21 president; the College and subsidiaries the Family Life

22 Development Center, the Residential Child Care Project, and

23 Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (“TCI”); and Project Directors of

24 the Residential Child Care Project and TCI Trainers and

4 1 Coordinators, Martha Holden and Michael Nunno.

2 Finally, HWC sued Hillside Children’s Center (“HCC”), a

3 private childcare provider and residential treatment center, and

4 two of its officers, Dennis Richardson, HCC’s president, and

5 Douglas Bidleman, HCC’s Coordinator for Sociotherapy

6 (collectively “the Hillside defendants”).

7 The state and Cornell defendants moved to dismiss the

8 complaint pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6), and the Hillside

9 defendants moved to dismiss the complaint pursuant to Fed. R.

10 Civ. P. 12(c). The district court granted both motions as to all

11 of plaintiffs’ federal claims and declined to exercise

12 supplemental jurisdiction over the remaining state law claims.

13 The federal claims dismissed were: (1) copyright infringement

14 against the state defendants; and (2) conspiracy to monopolize

15 and restrain trade, together with monopoly, restraint of trade,

16 and unfair competition, against all defendants.

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