New York Public Interest Research Group, Inc. v. Regan

— Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court at Special Term (Prior, Jr., J.), entered October 22, 1981 in Albany County, which dismissed plaintiffs’ complaint in a taxpayer action pursuant to article 7-A of the State Finance Law on the ground that said action was moot. We are called upon today to determine that future Governors, Comptrollers and Commissioners of Taxation and Finance will be likely to repeat, in years to come, the 1981 issuance of scrip in payment of wages to State employees in the absence of legislative appropriation bills and timely enactment of a budget, in alleged…