In the Matter of BARBARA S. PREISKEL et al., as Trustees under the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Trust.
COMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK, Respondent-Appellant,
v.
NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST et al., Appellants-Respondents.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
September 21, 2000.
September 21, 2000.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Philip L. Graham, Jr., of counsel (Henry Christensen, III, Charles T. Dowling and Christine C. Monterosso on the brief; Sullivan & Cromwell, attorneys), for respondent-appellant.
Roy L. Reardon of counsel (Russell E. Brooks, David R. Gelfand, Charles Westland, Mildred Kalik and Victoria B. Bjorklund on the brief; Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, L. L. P., and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, attorneys), for New York Community Trust and others, appellants-respondents.
Marla G. Simpson of counsel (Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York, attorney), for Ultimate Charitable Beneficiaries, appellant-respondent.
Malvin E. Bank of counsel (James C. Koenig and Michael J. Levin on the brief; Thompson Hine & Flory, L. L. P., and Menaker & Herrmann, L. L. P., attorneys), for Chicago Community Trust and others, amici curiae.
Florence A. Davis for Starr Foundation, amicus curiae.
John M. O'Connor of counsel (Mark Weldon and Stephanie H. Scherby on the brief; DeForest & Duer, attorneys), for National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy and another, amici curiae.
Gregory L. Diskant of counsel (Rochelle Korman, Robert W. Lehrburger, Nicole Tell and John A. Edie on the brief; Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, L. L. P., attorneys), for Council on Foundations, amicus curiae.
WILLIAMS, J.P., WALLACH, LERNER and SAXE, JJ., concur.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.
OPINION OF THE COURT
ANDRIAS, J.
These cross appeals present issues of whether the Surrogate correctly found that the Distribution Committee of the New York Community Trust (collectively, Community Trust) had abused its discretion in exercising its variance powers to terminate specific bequests to the Community Service Society of New York (CSS); whether a six-year Statute of Limitations should apply to this proceeding: whether CSS's claims are barred by...
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