New York State Coalition for Criminal Justice, Inc. v. Coughlin

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, without costs.

In Boryszewski v Brydges (37 NY2d 361), this court established a broad right of standing on behalf of taxpayers seeking *662judicial review of governmental action said to be unconstitutional. That determination was not based on any constitutional right of standing, but rather on the abandonment of previously created impediments to standing (id., at p 364).

Shortly after our Boryszewski opinion, the Legislature enacted an amendment to subdivision 1 of section 123-b of the State Finance Law, which…