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MARGULIS v. LINDSAY

31 N.Y.2d 167 (1972)

Anita Margulis et al., Appellants, v. John V. Lindsay, Individually and as Mayor of City of New York, et al., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided July 7, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald Zimmerman for appellants.

Otto M. Bonaparte, I. Stanley Stein, Gerald Davis, Edward L. Johnson and Jeanne Hollingsworth for Simeon Golar, respondent.

J. Lee Rankin, Corporation Counsel (Alfred Weinstein, Norman Redlich and Stanley Buchsbaum of counsel), for John V. Lindsay, respondent.

Herbert Kahn, Elliott M. Abramson and Robert Cammer for Queens Council for Better Housing and Community Development and others, amici curiae.

Chief Judge FULD and Judges BURKE, BERGAN, JASEN and GIBSON concur with Judge BREITEL; Judge SCILEPPI dissents and votes to reverse in a separate opinion.

BREITEL, J.

The issue in this case turns on the breadth of meaning of the term "project" in the Public Housing Law. Appellants attribute to the term "project" a particular meaning which would require resubmission for approval to the New York City Board of Estimate of a project modified since the prior approval by the board. Respondents, on the other hand, would give the term a broader and, therefore, a vaguer...

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