Korn v. Gulotta

By constitutional design, our system of government is tripartite in nature, with power shared among three coequal branches. "It is a fundamental principle of the organic law that each department should be free from interference, in the discharge of its peculiar duties, by either of the others” (Saxton v Carey, 44 NY2d 545, 549). We have held that "the court as a policy matter, even apart from principles of subject matter jurisdiction, will abstain from venturing into areas if it is ill-equipped to undertake the responsibility and other branches of government are far more suited to the task”…