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SASKA v. METROPOLITAN MUSEUM

650775/2013

42 Misc.3d 548 (2013)

975 N.Y.S.2d 605

2013 NY Slip Op 23366

FILIP SASKA et al., Plaintiffs, v. THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, Defendant. THEODORE GRUNEWALD et al., Plaintiffs, v. THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART et al., Defendants.

Supreme Court, New York County.

Decided October 29, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arnold & Porter LLP for defendants.

Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady LLP for plaintiffs in the first above-entitled action.

Weiss & Hiller, PC., for plaintiffs in the second aboveentitled action.

OPINION OF THE COURT

SHIRLEY WERNER KORNREICH, J.

The instant actions concern the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "pay what you wish" admissions policy. At the heart of these cases is whether this policy and the manner in which it is enforced runs afoul of General Business Law § 349, a nineteenth-century statute which provided funding to the Museum, and the lease between the Museum and the City of New York, executed in 1878. The Museum now moves to dismiss...

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