SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
Appellate Division, Fourth Judicial Department
466
CA 14-01041
PRESENT: SMITH, J.P., CARNI, LINDLEY, SCONIERS, AND DEJOSEPH, JJ.
IN THE MATTER OF COUNTY OF GENESEE,
PETITIONER-PLAINTIFF-RESPONDENT,
V ORDER
NIRAV R. SHAH, M.D., M.P.H., COMMISSIONER,
NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH,
RESPONDENTS-DEFENDANTS-APPELLANTS.
ERIC T. SCHNEIDERMAN, ATTORNEY GENERAL, ALBANY (VICTOR PALADINO OF
COUNSEL), FOR RESPONDENTS-DEFENDANTS-APPELLANTS.
WHITEMAN OSTERMAN & HANNA LLP, ALBANY (CHRISTOPHER E. BUCKEY OF
COUNSEL), AND NANCY ROSE STORMER, P.C., UTICA, FOR
PETITIONER-PLAINTIFF-RESPONDENT.
Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Genesee County
(Robert C. Noonan, A.J.), entered May 22, 2014 in a CPLR article 78
proceeding and a declaratory judgment action. The judgment, among
other things, directed respondents-defendants to pay petitioner-
plaintiff’s claims for reimbursement of overburden expenditures.
It is hereby ORDERED that the judgment so appealed from is
unanimously modified on the law by denying the petition-complaint in
its entirety and granting judgment in favor of respondents-defendants
as follows:
It is ADJUDGED and DECLARED that section 61 of part D
of section 1 of chapter 56 of the Laws of 2012 has not been
shown to be unconstitutional,
and as modified the judgment is affirmed without costs (see Matter of
County of Chautauqua v Shah, 126 AD3d 1317).
Entered: May 1, 2015 Frances E. Cafarell
Clerk of the Court