Wein v. State of New York

Chief Judge Breitel.

In a taxpayer’s action Supreme Court summarily on motion declared constitutional sections 22 and 23 of the State Financial Emergency Act for the City of New York (L 1975, ch 868, as amd by L 1975, ch 870). Plaintiff taxpayer appeals directly to this court urging the statute’s *140unconstitutionality (NY Const, art VI, § 3, subd b, par [2]; CPLR 5601, subd [b], par 2).

In a desperate fiscal crisis the Nation’s largest city faces bankruptcy and the State lacks cash resources to tide the city over its immediate problems by outright grant of funds. The issue is whether…