Legal Opinion
Mobil Oil Corp. v. Town of Huntington
New York Supreme Court
Decided November 7, 1975PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLeon D. Lazer, J.
In 1971, the Town of Huntington (the "town”) enacted a local law (Code of Town of Huntington, ch 60, § 60-30 et seq.) entitled the Oil Spillage Ordinance. An action to declare the law invalid was thereafter commenced by the Mobil Oil Corporation ("Mobil”) which operates a waterfront oil distribution terminal in the town and the State then entered the litigation by intervening as a party defendant. Mobil first sought preliminary injunctive relief, but when that was withheld it moved for summary judgment. Although Mobil’s arguments relative to the claimed invalidity of the spillage law were…
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