Santangelo v. State
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Balletta, J. P.
The issue presented on this appeal is whether the Court of Claims exceeded its powers in declaring, sua sponte, that General Municipal Law § 205-e (as amended by L 1990, ch 762) was unconstitutional to the extent that it could be retroactively applied to revive the claims of the two claimants.
I
The underlying facts of this case are not in dispute. The claimants—Suffolk County Police Officers Joseph Santangelo and Fred Kirschenheiter—were injured on July 15, 1979, when they attempted to apprehend a patient who had escaped from confinement at the State-run…
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