MATTER OF STATEN ISLAND ALLIANCE FOR THE MENTALLY ILL v. TOLBERT


306 A.D.2d 31 (2003)

762 N.Y.S.2d 36

In the Matter of STATEN ISLAND ALLIANCE FOR THE MENTALLY ILL et al., Petitioners, v. EVONNE W. JENNINGS TOLBERT et al., Respondents.

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

Decided June 5, 2003.


In 1993, Jane Roe applied to respondent Metropolitan Transportation Authority's (MTA) Half-Fare Program, created in 1975, to obtain reduced-price transportation. Federal statutes and regulations then defined individuals as eligible if they had a permanent or temporary incapacity or disability, regardless of its origin, rendering them unable to use mass transit without special facilities or special planning, as well as persons not...

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