Legal Opinion
Orth-O-Vision, Inc. v. City of New York
New York Supreme Court
Decided March 19, 1979PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Bentley Kassal, J.
background
This is a taxpayer’s action, under section 51 of the General Municipal Law, to declare illegal, null and void a franchise issued by the City of New York to Knickerbocker Communications Corporation (Knickerbocker) to provide cable television service to the Borough of Queens and further, for an injunction to prevent any performance of the resulting contract. The taxpayer plaintiff is Orth-O-Vision, Inc. (Ortho), a company which currently provides limited closed circuit pay television service, through a master antenna system, to apartment houses in…
2Cases cited12 opinions
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- Brill v. MillerAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1910
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3Cited by9 opinions
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