Article: What politicians in need of spending have done, and are doing, to ...
The Bond Buyer;  December 20, 1993 ;     700+ words ...Back in the early 1800s, New York State went on a capital spending spree ... operating budgets was forbidden. In New York City, political leaders from La Guardia ... deficits led to a situation where in 1975 New York City's expenditures totaled $12 ...

Article: NEW YORK CONSTITUTION IS MORE THAN ...
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  September 24, 1997 ;     378 words ... ... and we finally get a spanking brand-new constitution for New York state, and it requires that an annual budget must be in place ... legislators will honor that date? Give me a break. The present New York State Constitution, if honored by the governor, the legislators ...

Article: FIX ALBANY? CHANGE NEW YORK ...
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  November 14, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... Legislature. Unlike most other states, that is not the system in New York. In fact, in recent years governors and the courts have eviscerated ... governor, and it can be fixed. We can fix it by restoring New York to the mainstream of constitutional doctrine, where a strong ...

Article: New York State Court of Appeals Case Summaries: ...
Daily Record (Rochester, NY);  December 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... CommunicationsMatter of Walton v. New York Department of Correctional Services ... assert cognizable claims under the New York Constitution; the Appellate Division ruling ... Victor Paladino for respondent New York State Department of Correctional ...

Article: THE EMBARRASSING SAGA OF NEW YORK'S DERIVATIVE ...
St. John's Law Review;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... however, is much fuzzier: New York courts habitually ground their ... collective authority of the New York Constitution's right to counsel clause ... Article I, Section 6 of the New York Constitution).2 This means that the analysis ...

Article: To act or not to act: will New York's defeated ...
Fordham Urban Law Journal;  October 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... This phenomenon is particularly visible in New York State where, in 2004, the New York Court of Appeals struck down the State's death penalty statute as invalid under the New York Constitution. (1) Three years later, in People v ...

Article: Lopez Torres and judicial selection in New York: an ...
Albany Law Review;  March 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... New York State Supreme Court is New York's statewide trial court of general ... that change was effected by the New York Constitution of 1846. (1) With the exception ... conventions. In Lopez Torres v. New York State Board of Elections, the ...