New York State School Bus Operators Ass'n v. County of Nassau

Bus transportation in Nassau County traditionally has been performed by a series of unrelated private companies. But, over the past decade, the service quality, profitability, and intercompany co-ordination of multiple bus routes deteriorated, and became subject to increasing public challenge.

As a remedial step in 1967, under then newly enacted State legislation, the county took over a number of the private bus concerns and leased their facilities to the Metropolitan Suburban Bus Authority (MSBA), an organizational child of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). MSBA then operated…