Legally Brief: New York — Archive

Albany passed a sixth emergency budget extender while the Attorney General and Governor sued in the Second Circuit to restore $73 million in federal highway funds and defended state gambling enforcement against prediction-market platforms, as the Court of Appeals tightened CPL 30.30 motion practice and suppression law in high-profile criminal decisions.

Albany advanced a third post–April 1 budget extender as the Attorney General secured sweeping mental-health reforms at NewYork-Presbyterian and coordinated Bronx pesticide raids with DEC, while the First Department tightened storm-in-progress proof in interior slip cases.

New York passed a second post–April 1 budget extender through April 14 while Albany finalized FAIR Act and RAISE Act chapter amendments and courts weighed video authentication, securities Act sales, and Fourth Department fee splits.

With ten days until the April 1 fiscal deadline, the edition tracked Albany's budget fault lines, AG James's 22-state tariff challenge, Court of Appeals reversals in People v. Jones and Henderson, and the AVOID Act's rewrite of CPLR § 1007.

Federal judge struck down the Trump administration's congestion pricing rescission in a 149-page ruling calling it 'arbitrary and capricious,' while the Third Department held New York's Section 8 anti-discrimination law unconstitutional.

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