GOEHLER v. CORTLAND COUNTY

No. 506086

70 A.D.3d 57 (2009)

890 N.Y.S.2d 660

2009 NY Slip Op 8725

EDWARD GOEHLER et al., Respondents, v. CORTLAND COUNTY et al., Appellants, and WILLIAM F. AMES, as Judge of Cortland County Family Court, Surrogate's Court and County Court, et al., Respondents, et al., Defendant.

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

Decided November 25, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dirk J. Oudemool, Syracuse, for appellants.

Law Offices of S. Francis Williams, Cortland (S. Francis Williams of counsel), for Edward Goehler and others, respondents.

William F. Ames, Cortland, respondent pro se.

Julie A. Campbell, Cortland, respondent pro se.

SPAIN, KAVANAGH and GARRY, JJ., concur.


OPINION OF THE COURT

MERCURE, J.P.

Plaintiffs are attorneys who are on the Cortland County assigned counsel panel and have accepted appointments to represent indigent clients in the Family, County and Surrogate's Courts of Cortland County. They commenced this action seeking to have Local Law No. 1 (2006) of the County of Cortland declared invalid on the ground that it violates County Law § 722 and the Municipal Home Rule Law. As relevant here, Local...

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