McMinn v. Town of Oyster Bay

My confreres of the majority conclude that provisions of the zoning ordinance are arbitrary and violate due process under the State Constitution. The scholarly and exhaustive opinion of Justice Lazer presents a sharp review of the changing landscape of our times as it carefully weaves its way through the trial testimony of experts for both sides as they discussed the demographic trends which presumably affect the issues before the court.

Plaintiffs’ experts noted that the percentage of American households consisting of unrelated persons living together in 1980 has doubled since 1970 and that…