Expressions Hair Design v. Schneiderman

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Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit·Decided December 11, 2015·No. 13-4533 (L)·Published

Opinion

13‐4533 (L)

Expressions Hair Design v. Schneiderman

1 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 2 FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT 3 4 August Term 2014 5 6 (Argued: March 5, 2015 Decided: September 29, 2015 7 Amended: December 11, 2015) 8 9 Nos. 13‐4533, 13‐4537 10 11 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 12 13 EXPRESSIONS HAIR DESIGN, LINDA FIACCO, THE BROOKLYN FARMACY & SODA 14 FOUNTAIN, INC., PETER FREEMAN, BUNDA STARR CORP., DONNA PABST, FIVE POINTS 15 ACADEMY, STEVE MILLES, PATIO.COM LLC, DAVID ROSS, 16 17 Plaintiffs‐Appellees, 18 19 ‐v.‐ 20 21 ERIC T. SCHNEIDERMAN, in his official capacity as Attorney General of the State of 22 New York, CYRUS R. VANCE, JR., in his official capacity as District Attorney of 23 New York County, CHARLES J. HYNES, in his official capacity as District Attorney 24 of Kings County, 25 26 Defendants‐Appellants. 27 28 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 29 30 Before: WESLEY, LIVINGSTON, and CARNEY, Circuit Judges. 31 32 Defendants appeal from a November 4, 2013 judgment of the United States 33 District Court for the Southern District of New York (Jed S. Rakoff, Judge) declaring

1 that New York General Business Law § 518, which prohibits sellers from imposing 2 a surcharge on customers who use credit cards, violates the First Amendment and 3 is unconstitutionally vague under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth 4 Amendment, and enjoining Defendants from enforcing the surcharge prohibition 5 against Plaintiffs. We conclude that the district court erred in holding that § 518 6 violates the First Amendment and the Due Process Clause. We therefore vacate the 7 judgment and remand for dismissal of Plaintiffs’ claims. 8 9 VACATED AND REMANDED. 10 11 JUDITH VALE, Assistant Attorney General 12 (Barbara D. Underwood, Solicitor General, 13 Steven C. Wu, Deputy Solicitor General, on 14 the brief), for Defendant‐Appellant Eric T. 15 Schneiderman, in his official capacity as Attorney 16 General of the State of New York. 17 18 Larry A. Sonnenschein, Ronald E. Sternberg, 19 for Zachary W. Carter, Corporation Counsel 20 of the City of New York, for Defendants‐ 21 Appellants Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., in his official 22 capacity as District Attorney of New York 23 County, and Charles J. Hynes, in his official 24 capacity as District Attorney of Kings County. 25 26 Henry C. Meier, Associate General Counsel, 27 for Amicus Curiae Credit Union Association of 28 New York in support of Defendants‐Appellants. 29 30 DEEPAK GUPTA, Gupta Beck PLLC, 31 Washington, DC (Gary Friedman, Friedman 32 Law Group, LLP, New York, NY, on the brief), 33 for Plaintiffs‐Appellees.

1 Linda P. Nussbaum, Grant & Eisenhofer, 2 P.A., New York, NY, for Amici Curiae The 3 Kroger Company, Safeway Inc., Walgreen Co., 4 Food Lion, LLC, Hy‐Vee Inc., H.E. Butt Grocery 5 Co., The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., Inc., 6 Albertson’s LLC, and Rite Aid Corp., in support 7 of Plaintiffs‐Appellees. 8 9 J. Douglas Richards, Cohen Milstein Sellers & 10 Toll PLLC, New York, NY, for Amici Curiae 11 Consumer Action, National Association of 12 Consumer Advocates, National Consumers 13 League, and U.S. Public Interest Research Group, 14 in support of Plaintiffs‐Appellees. 15 16 17 DEBRA ANN LIVINGSTON, Circuit Judge:

18 New York General Business Law § 518 (“Section 518”) provides that “[n]o 19 seller in any sales transaction may impose a surcharge on a holder who elects to use 20 a credit card in lieu of payment by cash, check, or similar means.” Plaintiffs‐ 21 Appellees in this action (“Plaintiffs”) are five New York businesses and their owners 22 and managers.1 They sued the Attorney General of the State of New York and the

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Plaintiffs are Expressions Hair Design, a unisex hair salon in Vestal, New York, and its co‐owner, Linda Fiacco; The Brooklyn Farmacy & Soda Fountain, Inc., an ice‐cream parlor in Brooklyn, and its co‐founder, Peter Freeman; Bunda Starr Corp., which owns a Manhattan liquor store, and its president, Donna Pabst; Five Points Academy, a Manhattan martial arts studio, and its vice president, Steve Milles; and Patio.Com LLC, an outdoor furniture and billiards company with stores throughout New York, and its founder and president, David Ross.

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