ALBANY—The state will start collecting revenues on unclaimed bottle deposits, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced.
The collection had been stayed by an earlier court ruling, after bottlers sued over an expanded bottle law that seeks to collect nickel deposits for bottled water sold in the state. The ruling, by federal judge Deborah Batts, Read More
ALBANY—Lawyers representing both the state and an association of bottlers appeared today in Federal Court in Manhattan to reargue a decision that suspended the state's expanded bottle law until next year, but the case was adjourned for two weeks.
The law was due to take effect June 1, but was thrown out by Read More
ALBANY—Lawyers representing both the state and an association of bottlers appeared today in Federal Court in Manhattan to reargue a decision that suspended the state's expanded bottle law until next year, but the case was adjourned for two weeks. The law was due to take effect June 1, but was thrown out by Judge Thomas Read More
ALBANY—After a federal judge threw out the state's expanded bottle law last month in response to a lawsuit by some major bottlers, government lawyers filed a motion Wednesday calling on the judge to reconsider. The motion seeks to modify a ruling by Judge Thomas Griesa, which stopped all aspects of the law until April 1, Read More
ALBANY—After a federal judge threw out the state's expanded bottle law last month in response to a lawsuit by some major bottlers, government lawyers filed a motion Wednesday calling on the judge to reconsider.
The motion seeks to modify a ruling by Judge Thomas Griesa, which stopped all aspects of the law until April Read More
ALBANY—Here's the official written injunction from federal court Judge Thomas Griesa, which declares the state's expanded bottle law unenforceable until April 1, 2010, which should cost the state over $100 million dollars. Griesa issued the order after a group of bottlers sued to stop the enforcement of the law, on grounds that its provision for Read More
ALBANY—Here's the official written injunction from federal court Judge Thomas Griesa, which declares the state's expanded bottle law unenforceable until April 1, 2010, which should cost the state over $100 million dollars.
Griesa issued the order after a group of bottlers sued to stop the enforcement of the law, on grounds that its Read More
ALBANY—There is nothing in writing yet from federal judge Thomas Griesa, who yesterday declared an injunction preventing the state's expanded bottle law from taking effect on June 1. But someone passed along a court transcript.
In it, Griesa writes "the defendants are preliminarily enjoined from carrying out or enforcing the phase of Read More
ALBANY—There is nothing in writing yet from federal judge Thomas Griesa, who yesterday declared an injunction preventing the state's expanded bottle law from taking effect on June 1. But someone passed along a court transcript. In it, Griesa writes "the defendants are preliminarily enjoined from carrying out or enforcing the phase of the statute which Read More
ALBANY—During a court appearance today, a federal judge issued a temporary injunction forestalling the implementation of the expanded bottle bill, which was enacted as part of the state budget. This means that the measure will not go into effect, as planned, by June 1. There was recognition among state lawmakers that it had to be Read More
ALBANY—During a court appearance today, a federal judge issued a temporary injunction forestalling the implementation of the expanded bottle bill, which was enacted as part of the state budget.
This means that the measure will not go into effect, as planned, by June 1. There was recognition among state lawmakers that it had Read More
ALBANY—There doesn't seem to be much progress on a legislative fix to the expanded bottle deposit law, even as lawyers representing the state prepare to argue, in federal court on Wednesday, against a lawsuit alleging it is unconstitutional. At an event praising Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court I asked Paterson about the bill, Read More
ALBANY—There doesn't seem to be much progress on a legislative fix to the expanded bottle deposit law, even as lawyers representing the state prepare to argue, in federal court on Wednesday, against a lawsuit alleging it is unconstitutional.
At an event praising Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court I asked Paterson Read More
ALBANY—They've been making noise about how they hate the expanded bottle deposit law, and now a coalition of bottlers has filed a lawsuit in federal court over the issue.
The suit—filed in federal court in Manhattan—lists David Paterson, Andrew Cuomo and commissioners Robert Megna, Patrick Hooker and Pete Grannis as defendants.
It alleges Read More
ALBANY—They've been making noise about how they hate the expanded bottle deposit law, and now a coalition of bottlers has filed a lawsuit in federal court over the issue. The suit--filed in Federal Court in Manhattan--lists David Paterson, Andrew Cuomo and commissioners Robert Megna, Patrick Hooker and Pete Grannis as defendants. It alleges that the Read More
