WAMBAT REALTY CORP. v. STATE


41 N.Y.2d 490 (1977)

Wambat Realty Corp., Appellant, v. State of New York et al., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided March 31, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Rosenthal, Monsey, and Bradford H. Brinton, Keeseville, for appellant.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Murray Susswein, Ruth Kessler Toch and Stanley Fishman of counsel), Albany, for respondents.

N. Earle Evans, Jr., and John S. Ferguson, Syracuse, for the Town of Altamont and others, amici curiae.

Judges JASEN, GABRIELLI, JONES, WACHTLER, FUCHSBERG and COOKE concur.


Chief Judge BREITEL.

This is a declaratory judgment action brought against the State, the agency, and related officials to challenge the Adirondack Park Agency Act (Executive Law, art 27) as violative of the home rule protection afforded local governments in article IX of the Constitution. Plaintiff, private owner and would-be developer of more than 2,200 acres of land in the Adirondack Park region, appeals...

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