Saratoga County Chamber of Commerce, Inc. v. Pataki

100 N.Y.2d 801 (2003)

798 N.E.2d 1047

766 N.Y.S.2d 654

SARATOGA COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, INC., et al., Respondents,

v.

GEORGE PATAKI, as Governor of the State of New York, et al., Appellants. (Action No. 1.)

KEITH L. WRIGHT, as Member of the New York State Assembly, et al., Respondents,

v.

GEORGE E. PATAKI, as Governor of the State of New York, et al., Appellants. (Action No. 2.)

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Argued March 26, 2003.

Decided June 12, 2003.

Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General, Albany (Andrew D. Bing, Caitlin J. Halligan, Daniel Smirlock and Peter H. Schiff of counsel), for…