BURNS v. EGAN


117 A.D.2d 38 (1986)

Heywood Burns et al., Appellants, v. John C. Egan, as Commissioner of The New York State Office of General Services, et al., Respondents

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

April 24, 1986


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Madeline Kochen for appellants.

Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Richard J. Dorsey, Peter H. Schiff and Joan L. Craig of counsel), for respondents.

KANE, J. P., CASEY, LEVINE and HARVEY, JJ., concur.


WEISS, J.

We are today called upon to consider for the second time the constitutionality of the Prison Construction Act (L 1983, ch 56, as amended by L 1983, chs 712, 713) (hereinafter the Act), and as a threshold matter, to determine whether plaintiffs have standing as voters and taxpayers to challenge the Act as violative of their right to vote under NY Constitution, article VII, § 11, which mandates a...

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