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COALITION v. COUGHLIN

103 A.D.2d 40 (1984)

New York State Coalition for Criminal Justice, Inc., et al., Appellants, v. Thomas A. Coughlin, III, as Commissioner of The New York State Department of Correctional Services, et al., Respondents

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

July 26, 1984

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Oliver & Oliver (Lewis B. Oliver, Jr., Harriet B. Oliver and Dorothy M. Keller of counsel), for appellants.

Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Maurice K. Peaslee, Peter H. Schiff and Joan L. Craig of counsel), for respondents.

Madeline Kochen and Arthur Eisenberg (Barbara Pollack of counsel), for New York Civil Liberties Union, amicus curiae.

William J. Dean (Joan Vermeulen of counsel), for Correctional Association of New York, amicus curiae.

KANE, J. P., MAIN, WEISS and LEVINE, JJ., concur.

MIKOLL, J.

Plaintiffs seek to permanently enjoin defendants from issuing bonds for prison construction. On April 15, 1983, the Governor signed into law the Prison Construction Act (L 1983, ch 56), which authorized the New York State Urban Development Corporation (UDC) to finance and participate in the development of correctional facilities on behalf of the State Department of Correctional Services (DCS). UDC...

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