MATTER OF RECLAIM THE RECORDS v. NEW YORK CITY DEPT. OF HEALTH & MENTAL HYGIENE

Index No. 153996/19. Appeal No. 190. Case No. 2021-04744.

216 A.D.3d 440 (2023)

189 N.Y.S.3d 460

2023 NY Slip Op 02395

In the Matter of Reclaim the Records, Respondent-Appellant, v. New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene et al., Appellants-Respondents.

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

Decided May 4, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sylvia O. Hinds-Radix , Corporation counsel, New York ( D. Alan Rosinus, Jr. of counsel), for appellants-respondents.

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York ( Michael D. Moritz of counsel), for respondent-appellant.

Concur—Manzanet-Daniels, J.P., Singh, Moulton, Rodriguez, Pitt-Burke, JJ.


Order and judgment (one paper), Supreme Court, New York County (J. Machelle Sweeting, J.), entered November 15, 2021, which, to the extent appealed from as limited by the briefs, granted so much of the petition to annul an amendment to the Health Code (24 RCNY 207.11) by which genealogists were not added to an expanded list of family members allowed access to death certificates before they become public records and remanded the...

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