Brown v. State of New York

Because the dismissal of this entire case against the State by the Court of Claims and the Appellate Division is the justifiable result, I respectfully dissent. The synopsis for my vote to affirm is:

• The New York Constitution grants the Legislature the responsibility to define the subject-matter jurisdiction of the Court of Claims;

• Duly considered and enacted statutes expressly pre*198scribe and implement that power and forbid implied State liability;

The judicial inferential interpretive method is neither supportable nor suitable for the resolution of this preanswer dispute, in which the Court…