Wholesale Laundry Board of Trade, Inc. v. City of New York

Theodore R. Kupferman, J-.

Plaintiffs bring on this motion to restrain the City of New York from enforcing amendments to rules and regulations fixing charges for supplying water, promulgated by the Administration of Environmental Protection and approved by resolution of the Board of Estimate on June 30,1970.

*568The gist of plaintiffs well-constructed legal argument is that the rates charged metered consumers of water have more than tripled since 1968 in an effort to raise city revenue and are not based on fair water charges. In 1968 these plaintiffs challenged a 100% increase in the charge to…