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PUB. INTEREST v. STEINGUT

40 N.Y.2d 250 (1976)

New York Public Interest Research Group, Inc., et al., Respondents-Appellants, v. Stanley Steingut, as a Member and Majority Leader of the New York State Assembly, et al., Appellants-Respondents. In the Matter of the Civil Service Employees Association, Inc., et al., Respondents, v. Arthur Levitt, as Comptroller of the State of New York, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided June 17, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward N. Costikyan and Jonathan D. Siegfried for Stanley Steingut and another, appellants-respondents, in the first above-entitled matter.

Martin Garbus and Dennis A. Kaufman for respondents-appellants in the first above-entitled matter.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Jean M. Coon, Ruth Kessler Toch and Franklin K. Breselor of counsel), for appellant in the second above-entitled matter.

James W. Roemer, Jr., for respondents in the second above-entitled matter.

Chief Judge BREITEL and Judges JASEN, GABRIELLI, WACHTLER, FUCHSBERG and COOKE concur.

JONES, J.

In these appeals we confront the question whether the allowances for particular and additional services to members of the Legislature included in chapter 460 of the Laws of 1975 (the 1975 supplemental budget adopted July 11, 1975) are, in whole or in part, increases prohibited by section 6 of article III of the State Constitution.

An action and a special proceeding are before us. Plaintiffs...

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