COUNTY OF GENESEE v. SHAH, M.D., M.P.H., NIRAV R.

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